VIII. ATHYRIVM. 141 
pinnules crWded oblong, connected at the base, with 
shallow lobes and teeth; sori short broad distinct, chiefly 
borne near the base of the pinnules. 
ATHTRICM FILIX-FCEMINA var. MARINUM, Moore in Pop. Hist. 
Brit. Ferns 91. 
e. multifiduin Monstrous : fronds suberect lanceolate ; 
their apex as well as the apices of the pinnae symmetri- 
cally multifid-crisped in a corymbose manner ; sori 
crowded, confluent 
ATHTRICM FILIX-FCEMINA, var. MUITIFIDCM, Moore in ed. 1. 
ATHYHICM FILIX FCEMINA var. VIVIPARA, Steele Handbk. Field 
Bot. 215. ATHTRIUM FILIX FCEMINA var. FUKCATCM, of gardens. 
f. ramosum. Monstrous: fronds suberect divided at 
the apex into numerous narrow rachiform segments; 
pinna; small unequal and unsymetrically lacerated at 
their apices ; sori small, chiefly confined to the pinnae. 
ATBTKICM FILIX-FCEMINA var. BAMOSUM, Moore and Houlston in 
Card. Mag. Bot. iii. 262. 
rj. crispum. Monstrous, dwarf; fronds with an irre- 
gularly branched rachis, the apices of the divisions dilated 
and multifid-crisped ; sori small, scattered over the whole 
under surface, often wanting. 
ATHYHICM FILIX-FCEMINA var. CBISPUM. Moore in ed. 1. 
The Drooping Lady Fern grows with a stout tufted 
caudex, which in old plants sometimes becomes consider- 
ably elongated and trunk-like, but is usually decumbent. 
The fronds which are of delicate texture, with more or 
less of a light feathery appearance, and are terminal and 
adherent to the rhizome, grow up about May, reach their 
mature condition towards the end of the summer, and die 
down naturally in the autumn if not previously destroyed 
