Pinna of multiple Frond— upper side. 



ASPIDIUM MOLLE.—Yariety Corymbiferum. 



Sim. 



PLATE XIII. VOL. VII. 



The normal form of the Aspidium molle, of Swartz, more 

 generallj;* known as the Nephrodium molle, of Brown, has been 

 figured on Plate XXX, vol. vi, and described on page 87 

 of that volume. Since an account of this species has been 

 published, Mr. R. Sim, of the Foot's Cray Nursery, has 

 introduced to the public this most singular multiple variety. 

 It is perhaps the most extraordinary variety known, the stem 

 being branched, all the ends of the pinnse multiple and crisped, 

 and the apex of the frond crowded with the many-crisped 

 multiple portions. There is another peculiarity about it, namely, 

 that it varies so very much in the form and multiplicity of 

 its fronds. The habit of the plant is erect, and its height 

 only half that of the normal form. 



I am indebted to Mr. R. Sim, for a plant and fronds of this 

 Fern, which enables me to figure it at the conclusion of the 

 genus Aspidium; and while referring to this species, I take 

 the opportunity of adding to the synonymes the following: — 



Aspidium molle, Jacquin, (not of Link, 



wliicli is Aspidium pate7is.) 

 Nephrodium molle, Liebmann. 



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