300 SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 



when very young by Mr. F. A. Edclsten; clifFering in the two 

 inches of the apex being somewhat contracted, only slightly 

 crisped and interruptedly marginate and dentate. 



Marginato-polyschides, Loive. — Raised from spores by Mr. 

 James, of Vauvert. Length twenty-one inches, width half an 

 inch, except near the apex, where three quarters of an inch 

 for the upper three or four inches. A very tall polyschides- 

 looking variety with a marginal belt near the costa, except in 

 the bulging apex where this line becomes submarginal and 

 terminates an inch below the aj^ex. 



Glomerato-ramosijm, Moore. — Differing from glomeratum 

 in the much more repeatedly branching stalks. Length eight 

 inches, width across the head six inches. 



Laciniato-cornx'tum, Clapliam. — Found at Horton, near 

 Rivaulx, by Mr. Thomas Hunton, of Rivaulx. Length seven 

 inches, narrow, much laciniated and lobate, very narrow and 

 submarginatc at the base, widening to half an inch, with a 

 broad normal rounded apex having the sori continued round 

 like the spokes of a wheel. The costa ends half an inch below 

 the apex in a honi. I am indebted to Mr. Clapham, for fronds. 



Marginato-sagittatum, Lowe. — A dwarf marginate irregular- 

 outlined frond, with a pointed apex and a pair of barbed 

 lobes at the base; resembling Fig. 604, but marginate. 



Scalpturato-dissectum, Moore. — Raised from spores by Mr. 

 Elworthy. An irregular narrow-fronded form, having somewhat 

 the appearance of laceratum but narrower, and the lacerations 

 also long, narrow, and irregular. Length six inches, width one 

 inch and a half to two inches near the base, and one inch 

 near the apex. 



Marginato-latipes, Moore. — Raised from spores by Mr. 

 Elworthy. Length eleven inches, width nearly three quarters 

 of an inch, with a wide base of an inch and a half. Marginate- 

 dentate, copiously soriferous. 



