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with brown, imbricated (overlapping) scales. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 245. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 129. 



Although requiring warmer treatment than the species, A. C. aureum 

 is more amenable to cultivation, and will be found to do well in a mixture 

 of three parts sandy peat and one of loam and sand, with small pieces of 

 limestone. When potted in such light material it requires a pretty liberal 

 supply of water at the roots, but the drainage must be perfect. 



A. C. crenatum — cre-na'-tum (notched), Moore. 



A robust variety, known also as sinuatum of Kinahan ; it is abundantly 

 found in two localities near Clitheroe, namely, Pendle Hill and Browsholme 

 Hall ; also in Devonshire ; in County Clare, in Blackhead, and in Galway, in 

 Ireland ; and at Kinnoul Hill, near Perth, in Scotland. Its fronds, otherwise 

 normal, are larger than those of the species, from which it also differs in 

 having the margins of its round-toothed lobes deeply crenate and often 

 appearing as though slightly twisted towards the back of the frond. A form 

 of this Fern called crenatum minor differs only in being smaller than the 

 normal form, with a margin equally notched. — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, 

 ii., p. 373. 



A. C. depauperatum — de-pau-per-a'-tum (impoverished), Wollaston. 



A variety more curious than beautiful, found growing wild at Kilkenny. 

 Its fronds, of normal size, are extremely variable in shape, some being 

 bifurcate (twice forked) at their extremity, others acuminate (taper-pointed), 

 while in some other cases they are quite cornute (ending in a short horn-like 

 projection). But whatever their form may be, the segments are so 

 depauperated as to be almost wanting, the fronds having all the appearance 

 of a sinuately-winged rachis (stalk). — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., p. 374. 



A. C. Kalon — Hal'-on (Kalon), Lowe. 



This, no doubt, is the handsomest known form of British origin, and the 

 one which, in point of size and beauty, approaches nearest to A. C. aureum 

 of Link. Its fronds, Sin. or more in length and fully ljin. broad in their 

 widest part, are furnished with large pinnse (leaflets), which are rounded 

 at their summit, and show conspicuous, projecting, crenate lobes. — Lowe, Our 

 Native Ferns, ii., p. 374, fig. 782. 



