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side of the apex; copiously soriferous at the base of the teeth 

 and at the apex. I am indebted to Mr. G. 13. Wollaston for 

 the illustration. 



Fig. 770. 



Fig. 771. 



Cervi-coknu, Moore. (Fig. 770.) — A distinct form, seven 

 inches long, and half an inch wide, branching in the middle, 

 and re-branching several times like stags' horns. A membrane 

 runs midway from the margin and costa, along which the 

 small oval spore-cases are situated. Exterior to this line 

 crenate-lobate, the margins being minutely and densely den- 

 ticulate. Width across the ajiex four inches. The illustration 

 is from Messrs. Stansfield. 



Marginato-coronatum, Moore. (Fig. 771.) — Resembling 

 marginatum, and in addition having the margin of the frond 

 cut into small rounded lobes in the same manner as in macro- 

 sorum, and the apex developed into a spreading curly head of 

 pointed segments, resembling a coronet. 



