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20. Frizelixe (Moore) 



Mrs. Charles Frizell, Castle Kevin, Co. Wicklow. 

 Co. Wicklow. 1857. 

 1 ft. 3 in. 

 Syn. lunulatum (JVoll.) 



21. FRIZELLI^E RAMOSUM (Lowe) 



Mr. E. J. Lowe. (Raised) 1874. 

 1 ft. 



Syn. RAMO-LUNULATUM (Woll.) 



22. FRIZELLI^E MULTIFIDUM. 

 Syn. LUNULATO-MULTIFIDUM. 



23. A similar form has been raised by Glave, of Scarborough. 



Mr. Phineas Riall, of Old Conna Hill, Bra)', writing on the same 

 subject, says : — " Mr. Bain, of the College Botanic Gardens, raised 

 quantities from spores, and about five years after he got it gave 

 me a young plant which crested beautifully, the original plant 

 being quite plain. I had many seedlings — some wonderfully 

 crested." 



The following definition of the peculiarities of Ath. f.f. Frizellice 

 is from Mr. Edwin Fox: — "In Frizellice, the secondary rachis 

 aborts at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd pair of pinnules, generally at 2nd, but 

 then the tertiary rachis on which they are situated aborts also, 

 and to that degree that the pinnules are crammed, or superimposed, 

 as it were, on the top of one another, the posterior imbricating 

 and half covering the anterior. The lamina of the pinnules partakes 

 of the abortion and becomes, in some specimens of Frizellice, so 

 congested as to appear warty or nodose, — the edges of the 

 lamina? are dentate and revolute. The anterior pinnule projects 

 backwards in a plane posterior to the rachis, the posterior pinnule 



