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BRITTLE PERX. 



have observed that sometimes, from the plant receiving a check 

 from exposure or improper treatment, the masses remain of 

 small size, and covered with the involucre, even after the frond 

 has withered. 



What I have already written under the head of Synonymes 

 &c., precludes the necessity of observations on varieties ; I will, 

 however, mention, that the late Samuel Gibson, of Hebden 

 Bridge, obligingly gave me a number of pretty and diminutive 

 fronds, which he gathered at Burnley, near Colne, in Lanca- 

 shire ; five of these are represented below. 



