SCOLOPENDKIUM VULGARE. 



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Stansfieldii, Stamfeld. (Plate LIV — A.) — This magnificent, 

 and, as yet, very rare variety, was raised from spores in the 

 fernery of Messrs. Stansfield, of Todmordcn, in the year 1859. 

 It is quite constant, and when the fronds are in perfection it 

 is the most beautiful of all the varieties of this protean 

 species. The fronds are densely undulated, in the manner of 



Fig. G75. 



Fig. 676. 



Scolopendrium vulgar e, var. crisjnim ; the undulations, however, 

 in the variety Sfansjieldn are lobcd and profoundly laciniated, 

 the projections being long-pointed and variously crisped and 

 twisted, giving the whole frond the singular appearance of a 

 fringed frill, if it is allowable to use this pleonastic phrase. 

 The stipes is from two to three inches in length, and the 

 fully-grown fronds twelve inches or more long, and about two 

 inches broad. My thanks are due to Messrs. Stansfield, of the 

 Vale Gardens, Todmorden, for the frond illustrated. 



MarcxINAto-irregulare, Moorr. (Plate LIV — B, and 



