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CYSTOPTERIS FRAGILIS, 



a distinct species. Some obscurity hangs over it as a British 

 plant. In a cool greenhouse evergreen. Stipites stout and 

 tough. The anterior basal pinnules larger than the posterior 

 ones. Indusium glandvdar hirsute. Rhizoma brief, creeping. 

 Fronds narrow-lanceolate; pinnules distinct and ovate; lobes 

 blunt. 



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fig. 841. 



Fig. 842. 



Fig. 843. 



Decurrens, Moore. (Fig. 841.) — Found at Silver Cove, 

 near Weniyss Castle, Fifeshire, by Mr. Tait, of Edinburgh. 

 Partakin"- of characters intermediate between dentata and 

 DicMeana. Pinnae deflexed, pinnules decurrent. The apices 

 of the fronds and pinna? acute. Prominently dentate. 



Crispa, Lotve. (Fig. 842.)— A singular dwarf variety, with 

 short distant pinna- and crisped pinnules. 



