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Fig. 791.— Middle portion of Frond. 



Fig. 792.— Middle portion of Frond. 



SuBSERRATA, Lowe, {suhserratum, Moore.) (Plate LIX — A., 

 and Figs. 791 and 792.) — Found near Castle Howard by ]\Ir. 

 C. Monkman, and near Todmorden by Mr. Stansfield. Fronds 

 narrowisli. Length six to twelve inches, width three quarters 

 of an inch to one inch and a quarter. The base often scarcely 

 narrowed, the fronds carving laterally, and the acute segments 

 falcatcly curved, so as to overlie each other; anterior margin 

 entire, posterior margin crenate. Fertile fronds also deorsely- 

 crenate. 



Ramosa, Lowe, (ramosum, Kinahan.) (Plate LIX. — B.) — 

 Found near Upper Lough Bray, County Wicklow, by the late 

 Dr. Kinahan; between Ashlcagh and Eriffe, County Mayo, by 

 CajJtain Morton Eden; Furness Fells and Windermere by 

 Mr. J. Huddart; and in Carnarvonshire; by Mr. Clift. 'I'his 

 interesting form has the rachis of both sterile and fertile 

 fronds dividing into dichotomously crowded branches, with 

 curled dense blunt-ended apical tufts. 



Crispa-aurita, Lowe, {crispum-anrltum, Moore.) — Found in 

 Ireland by the late Dr. Kinahan. Sterile fronds curled, but 

 having no terminal crest. Feitik^ fronds slightly uiidtitid at tlte 

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