BRITISH FERNS 



IX 



Plumosum {Moore) 



James Horsfall, in the employ of Messrs. Stansfield, The Vale 

 Nurseries, Todmorden. Yorkshire, i860. 



2 ft. 9 in. 



Besides the form here figured, varieties of plumosum have been 

 found by R. Moule in N. Devon in 1865, and by Mr. Wills in 

 Dorsetshire in 1869. There is also the Axminster form, found 

 in i860 by John Trott, a working farmer, a tenant of the Rev. Z. 

 Edwards, and the Scotch form found in Lanarkshire in 1863 by 

 Mr. M. Campbell, a nurseryman of Blantyre. The three last are 

 more frondose than the others that have been mentioned, but much 

 less so than plumosum divaricatum of Messrs. Stansfield (found in 

 1872 in Lancashire, by Wm. Morris, a fern collector). Plumosum 

 elegans {Moore), a seedling of Mr. Parsons, from the Axminstet 

 variety, is perhaps the most beautiful of the true plumosums. 



