DEYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS. 189 



bethpol, and province of Karabagh ; also between Liman and 

 Perimbal." I believe it is not uncommon on the continent. 



In England I believe it to be not uncommon. I am indebted 

 for my first acquaintance with it to Miss Browne, of Tallantire 

 Hall, near Cockermouth, in Cumberland, who obligingly sent 

 me an abundant supply of fronds. Dr. Allchin has observed it 

 growing very luxuriantly near Bangor. My friend, Mr. Clark, 

 found it extremely fine in King's Cliff Vale, near Bridgwater, 

 in Somersetshire. Mr. T. Moore finds it near Guildford, in 

 Surrey; and Mr. A. G. More in the Isle of Wight. 



Eadicles and caudex unknown to me : stipes about one- 

 fourth as long as the frond, which is very large, robust, broadly 

 lanceolate, and pinnate : the pinnse are distant, linear-lanceo- 

 late, very long, and pinnate : the pinnules are very distinct and 

 distant at the base of each pinna, nearer towards the apex, but 

 not crowded ; they have a narrow basal attachment, but are 

 strictly sessile ; they are narrow and gradually acuminate, the 

 sides are deeply notched, and the teeth of the lobes serrated ; 

 each pinnule is frequently slightly auricled at the base : the 

 clusters of capsules are in a single series on each side of the 

 midvein, and extend nearly to the apex of each pinnule. The 

 frond assumes the autumnal brown hue very early, but the life- 

 less fronds, as in Eupteris aquilina, retain their attachment 

 throughout the winter : the scales of the stipes and rachis are 

 of a rusty brown colour. 



2. Borrer's Male Fern : Dryopteris Borkeri : Deyopteeis 

 FiLix-MAS, var. Borreri. 



None, as distinguished from Filix-mas, but certainly many, 

 and possibly most, of the synonymes cited for Filix-mas belong 

 to the present plant. 



