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the other to have the principal part of it. Both, early, 

 gave me plants of laxum and densitm, but it was not until 

 later that Col. Jones sent me robustum, which has always 

 been less bulbiferous than the other two. These three 

 forms were in the original batch and were considered the 

 gems of the lot. With them were raised a number of 

 plumose and foliose forms, including plumosum grande 

 Jones, a very fine thing, and frondosum Jones, of both 

 of which I possess fronds. The only identifiable plant of 

 p. grande is now in the possession of Mr. T. E. Henwood. 

 Frondosum has recently given rise to developments of which 

 more anon. Baldwinii, which turned out to be the best 

 of the whole batch, was given as a small plant to Mr. J. 

 Loraine Baldwin and it was only under his culture that 

 it showed its superb development. It is said to have been 

 a bulbil from densum and if so it was a bud sport. In view 

 of its very distinct character and the extreme rarity of bud 

 sports among angulares I am inclined to suspect that it was 

 " a promising seedling " and was given away, as so many 

 promising seedlings have been, by their raisers, with more 

 generosity than discretion. The three original Jones-Fox 

 plumose divisilobes then are laxum, densitm and robustum. 

 They are very similar in general character, their differences 

 being sufficiently indicated by their names. Baldwinii 

 originated later and is much finer in cutting than any of the 

 others. It is certainly the most beautiful of the lot. 

 Many other forms have been raised from the originals, and 

 from their unnamed collateral relatives, by Mr. H. Stansfield 

 and others. Of these may be mentioned div. pi. foliosum, 

 frondosum, imbricatum, and incisum — all exceedingly 

 fine things, and there are doubtless many others to which no 

 special names have been given. "Densum superbum," 

 of Perry, I have not yet seen. The type is still evolving 



