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banks of a lake or stream of water. Though easily cultivated 

 it is several years before it recovers itself after being transplanted. 

 There are a few varieties: — 



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Fig. 863. 



Cristata, Moore. (Fig. 863.) — A remarkably handsome 

 form, which accidentally came into the possession of Messrs. 

 Osborn and Sons, of Fulham, and by them distributed. Length 

 three feet, width two feet, broadly ovate in form, bipinnate, 

 the rachis being furcate, and the apex multifid crisped. The 

 apices of the pinnae dilated into a large, spreading, crispy, 

 fan-shaped tuft, and the apices of the pinnules also dilated 

 and multifidly lobed. My thanks are due to Messrs. Osborn 

 for a plant presented to me several years ago, and which 

 has flourished with me to such an extent, that, at the British 

 Association Floral Fete, in August, 1866, it won the first prize 

 as a specimen British Fern, being symmetrical in form, and 

 fourteen feet in circumference. 



Interrupta, Moore. — In the possession of INIr. Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray. Differing in having a few normal pinn;r, and the rest 

 reduced in size, and of a roundish flabcllatc form. 



BuLKiFERA, Lowe. — Tlic exact counterpart of cristata, raised 

 from spores by Mr. Clift, of Birmingham, and merely differing 

 in having a bulbil at the base of the pinna;. My thanks are 

 due to ]\Ir. Clift for a plant. 



