314 SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 



dwarf Fern, six inches long, not unlike the figure of ramosum, 

 narrow and interrupted, with a comi)act, many-pointed, circular 

 head, much lacerated on the margins. 



Ckista-galli, JVoIlasfon. — Found some years, ago at Glan- 

 ville's Wootton, in Dorsetshire, by Mr. G. B. WoUaston, and 

 more recently at Nettlccombe by Mr. Elworthy, at Malham 

 by Mr. Stansficld, and on AVhitbarrow by Mr. F. Clowes. 

 Allied to midtijidum, but differing in the apex, being a com- 

 plicated folding rather than a complicated dividing of its parts. 

 Length of fronds twelve or fourteen inches and one and a half 

 to two and a half inches broad, cordate at the base, more or 

 less undulate below, the margin crenate, and the apex forming 

 a compactly crispy tuft. 



Depauperatum, WoUaston. — Raised from spores by Mr. G. 



B. WoUaston. A remarkable form of dujitatum curiously 

 deformed, having instead of fronds little else than their mid- 

 ribs, which form subulate points one to two inches long, which 

 are simple, bifid, or multifid. Occasional large digitate fronds 

 arc produced. 



PoLYSCHiDES, Ttciy , {angustatum and angustifolium of gardens.) 

 — A narrow-fronded form, known even as early as the time of 

 Bay. jNIore recently it has been found at Lismore, Bristol, 

 Fareham, Edlington, Ilfracombe, and in Guernsey. Fronds 

 narrow, strap-shaped, having numerous deep incisions on its 

 margins; irregularly crenately-lobed, the base subtruncate. Sori 

 irregular, short, and linear. Length of frond from six to twelve 

 inches, width three quarters of an inch. 



Vivo-POLYSCHiDEs, Cliipham, ffcecundam, Sim.) — Raised from 

 spores by Mr. Claj^ham, of Ramsdale Bank, Scarborough. 

 Remarkably proliferous when young, ^Ir. Clapham having counted 

 as many as sixteen bulbillse on a single young plant. Fronds 

 narrow, irregularly sublobate, and crenately dentate. A form 

 of 2^oli/schides. 



LiNEATO-MULTiriDUM, Loice. — Raised at Nettlecombe by Mr. 



C. Elworthv. Lenc^th of frond six to seven inches. Exceed- 



