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shaped). A long, very much contracted, form, with double 
marginal ribs at back of fronds, and widish, heart-shaped 
base. 
S. V. cristiilatum (small-crested) (7). A very pretty sport; 
fronds branch low down into several, each tipped with a 
compact, ball-shaped, moss-like crest. 
S. V. capitatum (headed) (11). Fronds normal below, with 
large, stiff, spiky tuft- crests. 
S. V. capitatum Porsteri (Forster’s) (14). Dense, rounded 
crests on bare, branched stalks, with no leafy portion to speak of. 
S, V. cervi-corim (stag’s-horn). Fronds small, branching, 
and contracted, with ragged surface and edges resembling a 
stag’s horn. 
S. V. cornutum (horned). Fronds end roundly, midrib 
projecting from surface, like a thorn. 
S. V. conglomeratum (massed together). Ward, and vars. 
Baxterii (Baxter’s), Coolingii (Cooling’s), Xelwayii (Kelway’s) 
{vide Fig. 28), Morganii (Morgan’s), and Wardii (Ward’s). 
These have short fronds, branching repeatedly, the plants form- 
ing a roundish mass of cresting, and bearing bulbils on the ex- 
treme edges, which develop into tiny plants while still attached. 
Wardii differs from the others — which are practically alike — in 
being somewhat smaller and denser. 
S. V. cougl. densum (densely heaped), Kelway. Raised 
from bulbil of Kelwayii; very dwarf, and the extreme of 
cresting. Plant like a dense ball of fine moss, with innumerable 
bulbils in the forks of the divisions. 
S. V. corymMferum (corymb-bearing). A fine, heavily 
crested form, crests consisting of rounded lobes. 
S. V. crispum (crisped), vars. Wills; Bowden; majus 
(great), Moses ; robustum (robust), Stansfield ; Clapham ; 
latum (wide) ; and Gray. The crispum section represents 
the plumose form of this species, the leafy portion being very 
much developed, so that a more or less deep frill is formed on 
each side the main stalk ; the most highly-developed forms are 
also perfectly barren. The wild finds of this description have 
been many; and though there are about a dozen forms suffi- 
ciently distinct to be easily discriminated by the eye, it would 
