LOMARIA SIMCANT- 3ft.J 



Biceps, Mules. (Fij^. 805.) — Found near Mavwood, by the 

 Rev. F. Mules. Length nine inches; pinnro widening to tlie 

 apex, and theii branching into two smuUer caudate-ended fronds. 

 Width two inclies and a half" innnediately below the branching 

 part. 



Heterophylla, Loine, {hetcrophi/Jlum, WollastonO (Plate 

 LX — A.) — Found near Tunbridge Wells by Mr. Wollaston, 

 Todniordcn by Mr. T. Stansficld, and Ilfracombo by Mr. J. 

 Dadds. Bearing two kinds of sterile fronds either separately 

 or together; part normal, and part altered in si/e and form, 

 the segments becoming narrowed and inciso-dentatc, or contracted 

 to a semicircular form, occurring irregularly. Sometimes the 

 fronds are linear, at others irregularly linear. The fertile 

 fronds have the same characters. 



Imbricata, Lowe, {imhricatum, Moore.) (Plate LX — B.) — 

 Found at Parracombc and Culborne, Devonshire, by Mr. J. 

 Dadds; Barnstaple by the late Mr. C. Jackson; Walsden, 

 near Todmorden, by Mr. J. Horsfall; Staups Valley, Todmorden, 

 by Mr. A. Stansfield; Lichfield by Mr. J. Young; near Castle 

 Malgwyn, Pembrokeshire, by Mr. W. Hutchison; in Carnarvon- 

 shire by Mr. Clift; and Glen Almond by Mr. J. Mc'Xab. 

 Fronds five or six inches long, lanceolate, tapering ujiwards, 

 breadth one inch; segments imbricated, dense, and oblong-acute. 

 Fertile fronds six or seven' inches long, jiinnate, with crowded 

 acute segments. Handsome and distinct, with more or less 

 erect fronds, forming a dense bush with a hollow centre. 



CoNTRACTA, Lowc, {contractum, Stansfield.) (Plate LX. — C.) 

 — Discovered in July, 1859, in Conway Valley, North Wales, 

 by Mr. J. Holmes. This variety is quite constant. In beauty 

 it is a gem. Pinnules remarkably narrow for the lower half 

 of the frond, above larger, irregular, and somewhat triangular 

 in form; the apex attenuated; the basal contracted pinnules 

 incised. Lenijth of sterile frond five inches. 



CoNTRA(;TA-KA:\tosA, Lowe. (Plate LX. — D.) — Discovered on 

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