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LOMARIA SPICAXT. 



mostly forked. Sometimes the apex of tlie frond is branched 

 into a large multifid head. Sometimes ramose and interrupted. 

 The frond often sends up sharply-serrated semi-fertile fronds. 



MuLTiFURCATA, LoiDC, (mulHfurcatum, Moore.) (Fig. SOS.) — 

 Found near Penryn, Cornwall, by Mr. F. Symons; and near 

 Over Darwen, Lancashire, by Mr. Stansfield. Very irregular 

 in form. The fronds branch once or twice, occasionally hear the 

 base, the apices of the fronds many times forked, forming a 

 moderate-sized flat tuft. The apical segments are irregular in 

 form and size, they are spread out and extended into an acute 

 point, with irregularly notched margins. Length six to eight 

 inches, tapering below and occasionally having a pair of lateral 

 branches as in trinercia; segments frequently unequal in length. 





Fiff. 804. 



Fig. 805. 



Elegans, Moore. (Fig. 804.) — Found in Scotland, by Mr. 

 A. Tait. Length six inches. Pinnae lobate, being divided to 

 the costa in the upper half of the frond, and scarcely divided 



and narrowing in the lower half. 



