12 ASPIDIUM ^MULUM. 



It is found in the counties of Cornwall, Devon, and 

 Somerset, Sussex, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, and 

 Northumberland. It occurs in several places in Wales. In 

 Scotland around Loch Lomond, in Argyleshire, Isles of Arran 

 and Mull, Orkney, and the Hebrides. Also in Ireland. 



In Yorkshire it is very abundant at Hackness, in a shady 

 wood. 



The habit of the plant is exceedingly graceful and very 

 compact; the frond has a peculiar crispy appearance, and the 

 colour of a very lively green. 



The fronds, which are deltoid, are tripinnate; the pinnules 

 oblong, profoundly pinnatifid, and having serrated spinous- 

 mucronate recurved lobes; all the pinnules are curved upwards; 

 pinnjE opposite or sub-opposite. 



Fronds numerous, glandulose on the under side. 



Sori medial and sub-terminal, circular in form, and covering 

 the whole under side of the frond. 



Indusium jagged on the margin, and reniform. 



Veins simple, forked or pinnate; venules direct. 



Rachis and stipes covered with jagged scales. Stipes half 

 the length of the frond, rigid, and brownish purple in colour. 

 Kachis greenish. 



Fronds termiaal, and adherent to a tufted rhizoma. 



Length of frond from twelve to twenty-four inches, and 

 from five to eight inches in width. 



Easily cultivated in a porous soil of loam and peat, and 

 succeeds best when grown in a shady situation. 



For plants of this species my obligations are due to Mr. 

 Joseph Sidebotham, of Manchester, and to Mr. R. T. Millet, 

 of Penzance; and for fronds to Mr. Thomas Moore, of the 

 Botanic Gardens, Chelsea. 



There is a variety, ProUfera, which Mr. E. Sim possesses, 

 which bears little plants on its frond-stalks near the surface 

 of the soil. 



It maybe procured of Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston; Yeitch, 

 of Chelsea; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; E. G. Hen- 

 derson, of St. John's Wood; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Kennedy, 

 of Covent Garden; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Cooling, of 

 Derby. 



