306 SCOLOPENDRIIM VULGARE. 



FissuM, 3Ioore. — liCngth twelve to eighteen inches, width 

 one inch. Erect. Slightly wavy, and the margins cnt into 

 broad lobes half way to the costa, the margins crenate. 



Flavo-tinctum, Moore. — Length ten to fifteen inches, nar- 

 rowish, spreading, somewhat wavy, with a two or three times 

 forked branched head. Yellowish green near the midrib. 



GemINUM, Sim. — Length four to six inches, width half an 

 inch. Very sj)reading, twin-stalked, fronds short, above twin- 

 branched, and these again twin-branched. The ultimate ones 

 angularly -lobed. 



Glomerato-digitatum, Sim. — Length four to six inches, 

 width less than an inch. Raised from spores by Mr. Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray. Strap-shaped, and with an apex like glomeratum, 

 or repeatedly forked-branched, flattened, fan-shaped, crispy head. 



Hastatum-majus, Elworthy. — Length six to nine inches, 

 width two inches. Nearly erect, long-stalked, stoiit fronds, 

 widest at the base, where there are arrow-barb-like lobes. The 

 upper half crenate. 



Lacerato-marginatum, Sitn. — Length two to four inches, 

 differing from laceratiim in the clefts of the fronds being sub- 

 marginate, especially near the apex. 



Marginatum-pygmceum, Sim. — A pygmy variety. Length 

 one to two inches, width one eighth to one quarter of an inch. 

 A miniature of marginattim, with other very short, rounded, 

 cornute fronds. 



Ramo-marginatum-proliferum, Sim. — Length two to three 

 inches. Broader, more leafy, scarcely marginate, tufted form of 

 ramo-marginatum, bearing numerous tiny bulbils on the u^^per 

 surface. 



Marginato-crispulum, Loice. — Slightly crisped without the 

 marginal belt, and denticulate along the margin. The marginal 

 belt a quarter of an inch within the frond, and terminating 

 four inches below the apex, where the margin is more irregular 



