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** Lateral veins hi-anched or forked. Cluster upon the first upper 

 lateral veinlet. 

 8. L. Filix-mas (Presl) ; /rowt^s lanceolate sMipinnate, pinnse 

 linear-lanceolate lowermost pair rather smaller than the second, 

 pinnules oblong blunt or acutish serrate (not spinulose) attache^-- 

 by their whole width or often connected below, clusters near the 

 midvein.—Aspidimn Sm., E.' B. 1458. , N. 198: — ^Fronds only 

 slightly narrowed downward* and the lowest pinna of consider- 

 able size^ rising in a circle from a tufted rhizome. Stipe and 

 rachis nearly glabrous, yellow, or densely clothed with purple 

 scales. Indusium very persistent, convex, with no marginal 

 glands. Height 2 — 4 feet. — a ; pinnules crowded' linear-oblong 

 very blunt slightly confluent broad-baaed adpressed-serrate.r^j?. 

 affinis; pinnules leSs crowded longer' actttish narrow and often 

 slightly auricled at their base, teeth patent lower ones notched. 

 — y.aiibreviatq, (DC.) ; .cjlusters near the .base of the confluent 

 crowded very blunt pinnules, a,hout 1 ,ft. high. — Woods and 

 banks, y. Cumberland., Ycjirkshire. Wyck, Glouc. Glenlsla, 

 Forfar. P. VI. VII, Male Fern. , B.S.I. 



4. L. ric/ida (Presl) ; fronds triangular-lanceolate' bipinnate 

 glandular, pinnse triangular-lanceolate lowermost pairnot smaller 

 than the second, pinnules oblong blunt' lobed and serrate with 

 a narrow attachment, segments 2 — 5-toothed not spinulose, indu- 

 sium persistent fringed ' with stalked glands, stipe clothed roith 

 long pointed 1-coloured ncales. — Aspidiiwm Hook; E. B. S. 2724. 

 N'. 191. — FrOnds erect, lanceolate with the lower pinnse rather 

 short and triangular; or triangular with the lower pinnse long-; 

 upper pinnse narrow ; all pinnate. ' Pinnules truncate below. 

 Covered with mihute stalked glands. Height I^ — 2 feet.^-Ingk - 

 borough, ArnSide Knot,' and hear Settle. P. VII. VIH. E. 



5. L. cristdta (Presl) ; fronds; linear-laneeolate or narrower 

 subbipinnate glabrous, pinnae short triangular-oblong pinnatifld 

 or pinnate lowetmost pair hot smaller than the second, pinnules 

 oblong blunt or rarely acute serrate attached by their whole width 

 and connected below lowermost lobed and subtripinnatifld and 

 superior and inferior nearly eqiUEkl, stipe with broad ovate acute 

 1-coloured (pale) scales. — Fronds erect, 2 ft. high. Indusium 

 without marginal glands. — a ; fronds nearly linear, pinnae pin- 

 natifld, pinnules blunt ; barren fronds broader. Aspidium'Sm.., 

 Sow. Ferns 10. N. 203. — j3. L. idiginos'a (Newm.); fronds linear- 

 lanceolate, pinnse pinnate, pinnules acute, barren and late fer- 

 tile fronds lanceolate, pinnae subpinnate, pinnules blunt. — Bogs 

 and boggy heaths, rare. P. VIII. ■■'■'■■ , ]<;_ 



' 6. L. spinuUsa (Presl) ; fronds oblong-lanceolate bipinhat,e 

 glabrous, piimae triangular-oblong or -lanceolate lowerinost pair 

 scarcely smaller than the second) pinnules ovate-oblong acute 



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