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SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 



Flexuoso-multifidum, Lowe. — Found at Plymouth in 1862, 

 by Mr. H. Mapplebeck. Length twelve inches. Costa flexuose, 

 the frond widening from the base upwards, terminating in a 

 compact, close, multifid head, scarcely wider than the general 

 outline of the frond, and giving it a horned appearance. 



Fig. 753. 



Fig. 754. 



SuBCORNUTUM-MARGiNATUM, Ivevij. (Fig. 753.) — A subcomute 



dwarf form irregular and distorted in outline. 



Submarginate, 



with a dentate margin. 



Length four inches. 



CoRNUTO-suPERBUM, Lowe. (Fig. 754.) — Raised from spores 

 by Mr. Elworthy, of Nettlecombe. A distinct form. Length 

 six inches, of which five inches is the stem; the lamina oval, 

 having a flattened base, crisped, with a regular dentate margin, 

 the apex circular. The stem very scaly throughout, and the 

 costa projecting from the lamina half an inch below the apex 

 of the frond, and pointing outwards in a cm've almost at 

 right angles to the frond, 

 inch to an inch. 



Length of the horn from half an 



Perangustum, Lowe. — Found in Guernsey by Mr. James. 

 Length ten inches, width only a quarter of an inch, except 

 the enlarged normal apex, where three quarters of an inch 

 wide. Finely bidentate on the margins, except above the edges 

 of the enlarged apex. 



