SCOLOPENDRIUM. 



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although it was eventually found wild at South Weald, Brentwood, Essex. 

 Its short, often twin- stalked, nearly erect fronds are much branched in their 

 central part, where they form a dense tuft of crowded, much overlapping 

 segments, which terminate in a repeatedly short, branched head, of which 

 the ultimate branchlets or lobes are deeply cut 

 and crispy ; each fan-like frond is about 9in. 

 wide. — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., p. 267. 



S. v. Elworthii — El-wor'-thi-i (Elworth's), 

 Moore. 



A singular, dwarf - growing variety. Its 

 fronds, not including the stalks, are scarcely 

 more than 2in. long and Sin. broad ; they 

 consist of three branches, one of which is 

 usually three times divided, the branches being 

 fan- shaped and deeply cut, with wavy, overlapping . 

 lobes. — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. 632. 



S. Y. endiYaefolium — en-di-VEe-for-i-um 

 (Endive-leaved). A commercial name 

 for S. v. laceratum. 



S. y. fimbriatum — fim-bri-a'-tum (fringed), 

 Allchin. 



This very distinct and extremely pretty 

 variety, also known in gardens as S. v. mar- 

 ginatum tenue, was originally found in Guernsey. 

 It is a distinct form of the marginatum section, 

 with two kinds of fronds : the broader ones are 

 6in. long, fin. broad, contracted at the base, 

 and irregularly fringed along their margins ; the 

 narrower are 9in. to 12in. long, Jin. wide, and 



nearly erect. So narrow is the leafy portion, which is of very thick texture, 

 that on either side it is only of the same width as the stalk itself. The 

 margins are finely fringed. — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. 642. 



Fig. 91. Scolopendrium vulgare 

 cristatum viviparum 

 (i nat. size). 



