ASPIDIUM FILIX-MAS. 



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The variety Incisa at Wollaton. 



Several other varieties, more or less distinct from the normal 

 form, were found about Ambleside, Grasmere, Rydal, Kendal, 

 Penrith, Wyburn, and Brathay, in the lake districts of West- 

 morland and Cumberland, at Morecombe Bay, Lancashire, and 

 about the falls of the Calder and Snout, in Durham. 



The varieties bear the names as if they were the varieties 

 of Lastrea instead of Aspidium; the gender has not been 

 altered, as they represent varieties of the section Lastrea. 



The Male Fern is too common to need a record of the 

 Nurserymen who keep it. The variety Cristata can be pro- 

 cured of W. Cutbush, of Highgate; Paleacea and Cristata of 

 J. Young, of Taunton; the varieties Incisa and Cristata of 

 Bass and Brown, of Sudbury; the variety Cristata of Veitch, 

 of Chelsea; Cristata of A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; 

 the varieties Incisa, Cristata, Paleacea, and Crispa of E,. 

 Sim, of Foot's Cray; the varieties Cristata, Erosa, Incisa, 

 Paleacea, and Polydactyla of A. Stansfield, of Todmorden; 

 Paleacea and Cristata of E. Cooling, of Derby; Cristata of 

 W. E-ollisson, of Tooting; Incisa, Erosa, and Cristata of E,. 

 Kennedy, of Covent Garden. 



The variety Cristata is so remarkably handsome that it has 

 been deemed desirable to give a coloured illustration. These 

 illustrations are from plants in my own collection. 





Variety Incisum. 



