SCOLOPENDKIUM VULGAKE. 



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Hastulatum-majus, Moore. — Length fifteen inches, width at 

 the base, where widest, three inches. Hastulate; costa flexuous; 

 margin slightly lobate; thick-fronded and copiously soriferous; 

 apex pointed. 



Fig. 744. 



CooLiNGii, Lowe. (Fig. 744.) — A very handsome dwarf 

 variety, soon to be distributed by Mr. Edwin Cooling, of Derby. 

 Its history is obscure, but the stock of this form has been 

 purchased by Mr. Cooling, to whom I am indebted for a plant 

 and fronds. Its nearest ally is Wardii, from which it differs in 

 being wider spread and in the margins being only lobate. The 

 stipes branches near the base, and the stems again branch within 

 an inch of the base, and the lamina re-branches several times; 

 the branches wavy and digitate, their numerous apices dilate, 

 not crested, forming a perfect ball-like plant, and each frond 

 also ball-like. Erect-growing, height from two to three inches, 

 width across the fronds three inches. The fronds, like Wardii, 

 are proliferous. 



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