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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



toothed lobes, are separated by wide, open sinuses (depressions). The stalk 

 and rachis are sparingly furnished with light brown scales, so conspicuous as 

 to have the appearance of prickly processes (Fig. 95). — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, 

 ii., p. 44, figs. 331 and 332. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 130. 



Fi&. 95. Frond of Asplenium Filix-foemina. clissectum 

 (i nat. size). 



A. F.-f. doodioides — doo-di-o-i'-des (Doodia-like), Lowe. 



This exceedingly distinct and beautiful variety, originally found wild in 

 Sussex, appears to be quite constant. Its fronds, about l£ft. long and 6in. 



