jo8 BRITISH FERNS 



XXIII 



Grandiceps Wills (ll'n//.) 



Mr. John Wills. Dorset. 1870. 



3 ft. 



Towers above all other forms of grandiceps, — three forms have 

 been found by Mr. Padley, all in N. Devon ; — the original 

 grandiceps was found by Wearing, a labouring man, on Warton 

 Crag in 1862. It had four crowns, one of which soon found its 

 way to i- oot's Cray. Mrs. Berry's form was figured as No. 2, 

 2nd series. (See XIX.) 



