362 BRITISH FERNS 



PULCHERRIMUM (Moore) 



T. Addison. Westmoreland. 1861. 

 1 ft. 3 in. 



By Mr. Wollaston. With reference to this variety Mr. Barnes 

 writes, " I was with Addison when he found it, and I thought it 

 then a good se?nilacerum ; it, however, improved very much by 

 cultivation, but when it went into Messrs. Stansfield's hands I had 

 no idea of its great excellence; I sold it for the young man to 

 Messrs. Stansfield for 15s., the whole find. 



" I have now in my collection three distinct strains of this plant, 

 — all very different ; on one the fronds are very long and broad, 

 the sori abundant and large ; on another the fronds are longish 

 and lax, sori few and small ; on the third the fronds are thick, 

 short, and almost deltoid, sori few and small." 



