352 SCOLOPEJ^DKIUM VTTLGARE. 



inch. Narrow at the base, gradually widening upwards, widest 

 at the apex, where rounded, pinnatifid with deeji open sinuses, 

 irregular in size and form. Mr. Clift, of Balsall Heath, has 

 raised a large form of this, seventeen inches in length and 

 one inch wide. 



PoLYMORPHUM, Wollaston. — Found in Sussex in 1854, by 

 Mr. Wollaston. Fronds very polymorphous and very broad. 

 Some like crenato-lohatum, with a large lateral branch; others 

 like dbruptum, with an arrested branch; some with a separated 

 basal lobe; others abbreviated, normal, multifid, ramose, or 

 truncate. 



Crispum-minus, Jackson. — Found in Guernsey by the late 

 Mr. Jackson. Small, much curled. Fronds ten inches long, 

 and one inch and a half broad. Base cordate and toothed, apex 

 acute or sometimes multifid. Margins frilled, dentate, and 

 nearly parallel-sided. 



Detectum-Jamesii, Lotve. — Found in Guernsey by Mr. 

 James, of Vauvert. Fronds somewhat narrow, the margin 

 crenate, the base truncately-cordate, the apex multifid, with 

 flat, spreading, many-pointed segments. Sori small and naked, 

 indusia imperfect, almost wanting. Fronds nine inches in 

 length, exceedingly coriaceous, the venation obscure. 



Crispum-varians, Moore. — Found near Settle by Mr. A. 

 Clapham. Broad and variable, sometimes crisped, and with 

 a simple acute apex, sometimes truncate, sometimes multifid or 

 ramose, and frilled; others very irregular and more undulate. 

 Proliferous. 



C'OMPOSiTUM, Moore. — Fronds twelve inches long, Base 



sagittately-lobed; lower half and extreme apex crisped, ujiper 



portion margmate, with laciniate teeth. A singular composite 

 form. 



Flabellatum-cornutum, Lowe. — Length of frond eleven 

 inches, of which the basal three inches is the stipes. Narrow. 

 Five inches below the apex the midrib dividing in a forked 



