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cultivation bear large, flat crests, fanning out 2in. to Sin. 
wide. Wild find in several places. 
A. T. incisnm (deeply cut) (14). This is the most beautiful 
variety found so far, and is really the plumose form of 
the species, the s^pall, roundish lobes which constitute 
the pinnae of the common form being greatly enlarged 
and very deeply cut, the subdivisions running out into points. 
Fig. 20.— Asplenium Trichomanes cristatum. 
This has been found wild in several places, but, being always 
barren, is rare. Mr. Clapham’s form is by far the best. 
A. T. Monleii (Moule’s). Yery distinct, uncrested ; pinnae 
small and narrow, with wavy edges. Wild find. 
A. T. ramo-cristatum (crested-branched) (16). In this form 
the frond branches more or less before cresting, thereby 
forming numerous smaller crests, instead of one only, as in 
cristatum. Wild find. 
The Green Spleenwort 
(^Asplenium viride). 
This Fem resembles strongly A. Trichomanes in general habit 
and appearance, but is far more sparingly distributed, and 
prefers a, damper atmosphere and position. It differs in having 
