BRITISH FERNS 



LXV 



DlVISILOBUM CRISTATUM (Woll.) 



Messrs. Ivery. (Raised.) 1870. 

 1 ft. 10 in. 



By Mr. Wollaston. The parentage of this splendid variety is 

 unknown. All that can be ascertained is that among' a large batch 

 of seedlings raised by Messrs. Ivery, from seed of some form of 

 divisilobe supplied by Mr. Wollaston, a very fair sprinkling of 

 crested forms appeared ; — Mr. Barnard Hankey also raised a most 

 extraordinary batch of crested divisilobes from some non-crested 

 variety, — and in several instances Major Jones has had crested 

 seedlings of divisilobes from some unknown source and Mr. 

 Wollaston and Mr. Moly have each had one ; it would appear 

 that some particular strain of simple divisilobe, not yet identified, 

 has the curious faculty of freely throwing crested seedlings. 



