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width two inches and a half in the basal normal portion. The 

 apex more or less repand, and multifidly divided into numerous 

 segments. 



Elegans, Moore. — Found at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, by 

 Mr. C. Monkman, of Malton. Length of frond nine inches, 

 with a stijDCS of five inches. Fronds narrowish, but irregular 

 in width, occasionally with prominent lobes, usually wavy in 

 outline, with a crenate-dentate margin, which is minutely crisped. 



PoLYSCHiDES-PYGMCEUM, Moore. — Raised from spores by Mr. 

 Clapham, of E-amsdale Bank, Scarborough. Undulate, occa- 

 sionally furcate at the apex. Base of frond truncate or cordate, 

 and the frond irregularly contracted. Fronds only two or three 

 inches high. 



Sagittato-crispum, 3foore. — Found at Petersfield, Hamp- 

 shire, and at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, by Mr. G. B. 

 Wollaston, and at Barnstaj^le by the late Mr. C. Jackson. 

 Large-growing and handsome. Length of frond twelve to 

 fourtecm inches, width three inches. Much undulated and 

 crcnatcly-lobed, the base elongated into a pair of acute lobes, 

 combining the characters of sagittifoUum and ci'ispum. Copiously 

 soriferous. 



Sagittato-laceratum, Moore. — Found near Whitby by Mr. 

 J. Willison. Dwarf. Fronds much frilled, having arrow-sha^^ed 

 basal lobes and a dilated apex. The divisions of the frilled 

 margins lacerate, the lobes being longish and acute. 



Crispum-irregulare, Moore. — A garden variety, curiously 

 lobate, the fronds having three or four reniform lobes at the 

 base, the margin here and there jorofoundly divided and irregular, 

 some parts laciniate, and there submarginate. Fronds frequently 

 dwarf, and occasionally cornute, with a blunt terminal lobe. 



Undulato-projectum, Moore. — Found at Mulgrave Castle, 

 Yorkshire, by Messrs. Stansfield, of Todmorden. Curious, 

 broad, somewhat undulated forin, with cordate base, remarkable 

 for the production of distant, projecting, pointed, marginal 



