BRITISH FERNS 



G. Bradbury, g. J. Jones, g. Moly, g. Talbot. — Found at 

 various places ; finders' names attached ; all are very fine forms ; 

 fronds more or less narrowed, pinna? small, tasselled, and fronds 

 bearing heavy, much-divided crests. (See Appendix No. LX). 



Fig. 228. P. ang, grandidens (centre of frond). 



Grandidens (Fig. 228). — This form has been repeatedly found, 

 and although marred by irregularities, its subdivisions are so deeply 

 toothed and peculiar, that it figures in all collections ; the most 

 remarkable form of it is 



G. Pearson, in which the pinnulets are cut into very fine~seg- 

 ments ; this was raised by Messrs. Pearson, of Nottingham, a 

 percentage of it, singular to say, always occurring in sowings of 

 a very fine symmetrical decomposite form, decompositum Pearson, 

 in association with a far superior plumose form (plumosum Pearsonii) , 

 a fair rival to the Jones and Fox plumosums. 



Hirondelle. — Found in Dorset by Dr. Wills ; pinnules, with 

 swallow-like outline, whence name ; pretty. 



