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in the lower half of the frond, the costa branching in the centre 

 and again dividing into two or three lobes, the outer lobes 

 more or less normal or irregular in outline, whilst the centre 

 ones are deeply cut into bifid lobes, with open sinuses. Every- 

 where conspicuously and copiously soriferous. 



CoMPLiCATUM, Wollaston. — Found at Chiselhurst, Kent, by 

 Mr. G. B. Wollaston. Length six to twelve inches. Base 

 cordate, apex simple or multifid, with twisted apical lobes. Costa 

 occasionally transversely branched, margin irregularly crenate, 

 undulate and laciniate-dentate. Sori numerous, narrow, and 

 irregular. 



DissiMiLE, Wollaston. — Found at Grassington, Wharfedale, 

 Yorkshire, by Mr. A. Clapham. Fronds very unlike, the lamina 

 varying from two to eight inches. Broad, apex cordate, margin 

 irregularly and deeply lobed. Sometimes irregularly contracted, 

 fan-shaped, bireniform, etc. Very proliferous. 



Abruptum, Moore. — Found at Littlehampton by Mr. Wollas- 

 ton, at Ilfracombe by Mr. Dadds, and in Guernsey by Mr. 

 James. Fronds variable in size, from two to twelve inches. 

 Base cordate, somewhat undulate. Apex broad and bluntly 

 rounded, the rachis rtirely reaching the apex. 



Crispatum, Moore. — Found in Guernsey by Mr. James. 

 Frond twelve inches long, and fi-om one inch and a half to 

 two inches and a half broad, base cordate, almost parallel- 

 sided, very much curled, apex acute, abundantly fertile. 



CoNTORTUM, Moore. — Found at Nettlecombe by Mr. Elworthy. 

 Length six inches. Base cordate, with a branch two inches long 

 on either side, multifid at the a2)ex, with curly segments; 

 margin nearly entire. Fronds six inches across the branches. 

 Sparingly fertile. Singular from branching at right angles and 

 from the contortion of the multifid points. 



Verticulum, Lowe. — Found near Torquay by Miss Fanny 

 Kitson, and communicated by Mr. Grey. Length twelve inches, 

 slightly crisped, one inch and three quarters wide, eight inches 



