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i*rk green becoming spotted with irregular purplish 
blotches, and it b sprinkled on the lower surface with 
sessile or stalked glands, which are roost numerous along 
the veins near the base. The frond is bipinnate; the three or 
four lowest pairs of pinnae are elongate-deltoid and of 
nearly equal hngth Ihu rest an hnoanhrti The pin- 
nules are stalked, lanceolate, the lobe* oblong ovate, deeply 
serrated with acute spinous teeth. The sort are borne, 
immediately below the angle of the deft which sepaialm 
the lobes, on the anterior venule of each &scide, and are 
covered by an unevenly margined indasran, which is 
mostly Cringed with stalked glmfc. It was found by Dr. 
Deakin on the top of GoatMl mamt*^ in the Isle of 
Arran. 
The variety jindUbw is a stout growing plant, two to 
three feet high, lanceolate-ovate, bipinnate; the stipes, 
which is about one-third of the entire length, being fnr- 
nishevt with few very broad fight brown scales without 
any darker caloBBed central bar. The pinnae are efenga&e- 
dttecid, fac iachiB loft 4anB^y uMBiul on tbeundarsnr- 
faee whh gbnds, which an ail* a* MMMW A* ttipu 
and rachi$ as to tender it rooghish to the toaeh. The pin- 
nules are ovate acute, very deeply pinmatifid and iiMiVijf 
serrated, the teeth ending in a spinou* point. The son 
are boroe over the entire fiwnd. in two series either lunglh- 
wmtiwpinnolM or lengthwise the larger lobes of the pin- 
nsJes, and they are covered by |.lmi IHagiJ indvaa 
This variety, which was found in the forest of Dean in 
Gloucestershire by Mr. W. Bennett, and fbrwhkh lam 
indebted to Mr. W. H. Purchas, is quite mtaimediate be- 
tween the or finnry X. JOatmtu and L. ijnimiiiii. andfe 
perhaps ^ nearly related to the latter as to the former. 
It k prnluMn Ihrt Miinal uTthn ahmi JMM nf f fii 
dHbtete are abnndwtry di*rib*ted over Great Britain, 
Uaonghont which the specks itself is 
earth, under whkh. latter aKaastanra* k attai 
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