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very small, serrate pinnulets, the pinnae being thus narrowed, but 

 not shortened ; frond of normal outline ; so named from a re- 

 semblance of the pinnae to a Doodia frond. 



Fig. 72. A.f.f. Elworthii (pinna). 



Fig. 73- 

 A. f. f. Elworthii (plan of frond). 



Elworthii (Figs. 72 and 73). — A magnificently crested form 

 found by Mr. Elworthy near Nettlecombe ; robust, and even the 

 pinnules crested (percristate). 



