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SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE. 



either side, with a wide open sinus, above this again normal. 

 Five inches below the apex the costa becomes branched, 

 and the apices of the divisions furcate. One lobe in each frond 

 is circinate, wrapping round and round, and resembling a 

 partially opening rose-bud. 1 am indebted to Mr. Edwards for 

 a plant. 



Fig. 75G. 



Fig. 757. 



Tkuncatum, Ivery. (Fig. 756.) — A truncate somewhat 

 undulate form, with fronds seven inches long, and above three 

 inches broad. Soriferous along the flat apex. 



Crenato-cristatum, Loive. (Fig. 757.) — A form of crenatum, 

 with the stipes branching two inches below the apex, and each 

 branch being crested. Length fifteen inches, width one inch 

 and a half, and two inches and a half across the head. The 

 illustration is from Mr. Monkman. 



Lacerum, Sim. — Raised from spores by Mr. R. Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray. Branching like diyitatum, flabcUately niultifid, 



