3 04 BRITISH FERNS 



XXI 



LASTREA PSEUDO-MAS, V(ll'. POLVDACTYLA M APPLEBECK (JJ'oll.) 



Mr. J. E. Mapplebeck. Westmoreland. 1862. 



2 ft. 9 in. 



Sy/i. Mapplebeckii (Muorc) 



Another grand fern. It is remarkable that almost identically the 

 same form — " L. ps.-mas polydactyla Wills'' — should have been 

 found a few years later, hundreds of miles away in S. Devon — 

 perhaps Mr. Wills' form may be a shade the more robust of the 

 two, — but it is very much a case of Cassar and Pompey. Mr. 

 Crouch's polydactyla found in Westmoreland is a fine form too, but 

 more lax and scarcely as heavily tasselled. 



