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CYSTOPTERIf* FRAGILIS. 



Wollaston, and Kentmerc by Mr. F. Clowes; in Borrowdale, 

 Cumberland, by Mr. G. B. Wollaston; Llyn Ogwen, Carnarvon- 

 sbire, by Mr. S. O. Gray; and in Scotland by Mr. A. Tait. 

 Length twelve inclies, lanceolate; pinnules peculiarly short, 

 blunt, rounded, ovate, and briefly stalked; lobes profoundly 

 pinnatifid and oblong, margin narrow, bluntly dentate. Colour 

 deep green. 



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Fig. 851.— Upper half of frond. 



Cristata, Loioe. (Fig. 851.) — This most interesting crested 

 form of Cijstopteris fragilis was raised from spores by Mr. C. 

 Elworthy, of Nettlecombe, near Taunton, and this is another 

 of those remarkable forms for which we are indebted to the 

 gardener of Sir Charles Trevellyn. The pinnae are somewhat 

 distant, and in the lower half of the frond conspicuously 

 crested, becoming more or less normal in the upper half and 



