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Badicles numerous, black : cau- 

 dex tufted ; crown rather broad, very 

 dark-coloured, clothed with dark 

 brown scales : stipes notably shorter 

 than the frond, very green towards 

 the frond, but dark purple below : 

 the frond pinnate ; pinnte sublinear, 

 acute, distant, generally spreading, 

 being attached nearly at right angles 

 with the rachis, pinnate : pinnules 

 blunt, lobed, lobes serrated, teeth of 

 the serratures broad, scarcely mu- 

 cronate : under surface glandular : 

 involucre jagged, fringed more or 

 less with stalked glands. 



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The form of this fern is exceed- 

 ingly various, but I do not think I 

 shall be justified in describing, much 

 less in naming the varieties, which 

 depend solely on the outline or cir- 

 cumscription of the frond. My ex- 

 amples, all agreeing in the blunted 

 apices of the serratures, and in the 

 character of the scales and glands, 

 are more various in outline than all 

 the other species of the genus : the 

 extreme forms in one direction are 

 regularly deltoid, and, in the other 

 direction, narrow linear-lanceolate. 

 I take the deltoid for the younger, 

 and the lanceolate for the older 

 plant : a root found by the Rev. Mr. 



Pinder near Chapel Styles, in Westmoreland, bearing fronds 



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