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vein -which branches from the mid- vein extends along 
one of the ulterior lobes, within which it ramifies, becom- 
ing more or less divided, as the lobe is large or small ; 
the ramifications of this vein (venules) are alternate ard 
simple, one of them running up the centre of each marginal 
tooth, the lowest anterior ones, and sometimes several 
others, bearing each a sorus a short distance from its 
extremity. The sori which are numerous, and appear 
scattered, are ranged on the more divided pinnules in two 
lines on each of its lobes crosswise the pinnule, just within 
the toothed margins of the lobes ; but in the upper part of 
the frond, and also towards the apex of the pinna? where 
the pinnules are less divided, they are ranged in two lines 
lengthways the pinnule near to the midvein. They are 
nearly circular, and are covered by an irregular reniform 
indusium, which is more or less fringed with stalked glands. 
The fructification is scattered over the whole under-surface 
of the fronds. 
Under some conditions of growth this fern becomes 
remarkably convex, the fronds being arched, and every 
part more or less curved downwards. Starved plants 
assume a different aspect ; they are smaller, more rigid, 
and of a dark brownish green colour, with the sori large 
and distinct, and having small, imperfectly developed, 
shapeless indusia, on which the glands usual to the species 
are but imperfectly developed. Mr. Newmau has called 
this form L. multiflora var. nana. 
The variety collina grows from a foot to a foot and a 
half high, with a pale-coloured stipes varying from one- 
third to one-half the entire height of the fronds. The 
stipes is furnished with narrow scales numerous below, but 
broader and more sparingly distributed above, and of a 
palish brown, darker in the centre. The outline of the 
fronds is stated by Mr. Newman to vary between deltoid 
and lanceolate, the latter being regarded as its perfect, and 
the former its immature condition. In specimens for 
which I am indebted to the IJev. G. Finder, its discoverer, 
