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dactylous, and I inch where cruciate ; near the base polydactylous, 
and the superior basal pinnule brachiate. 
35. multifidum, Lowe (cruciato-multifidum, Wollaston). Raised 
in 1865 by Messrs. Stansfield. 22Xif inches. Cruciate, apex 
crested. A crested Pritchardii. 
36. nanum, Lowe. Raised by myself. A pretty dwarf cruciate 
form with a finely cut capitate head. Length 9 inches, width ^ an 
inch, head 2 inches across. 
37. Nereidse, Lowe (cruciato-cristatum Lowe, Wollaston). Raised 
in 1873 by myself. Cruciate throughout the frond; pinnae and also 
pinnules crested ; capitate crested head. 18 X if inches. 
38. nutamen, Lowe. Raised by myself. A narrow cruciate 
variety. Length 21 inches, width 1 inch. Apex weeping. 
39. peculiare, Lowe. Raised by myselt. A leafy Victoriae- 
like form, 26x3 inches. Tips of frond and pinnae pointed. 
.40 percruciatum, Lowe. A narrow, slender, conspicuously 
cruciate variety, with a branched apex. Raised from spores. 
14 x 1 inches. 
41. Phillipsii, Stansfield (cruciato-pinnula Phillips, Fox). Found 
in 1864, in County Down, by Mr. W. H. Phillips. 21X6 inches. 
Normal (truncate and lax) ; pinnules cruciate. An interesting 
fern. 
42. Praegeri (cruciato-pinnula, Praeger). Found in 1880 at 
Castlerock, Co. Derry, by Mr. A. J. Praeger. Pinnules cruciate. 
22 X 5 inches. 
43. Pritchardii, Stansfield (cruciatum Pritchard, Jones). Found 
in 1861, near Ruthin, by Mr. T. Pritchard. 40X1 inches. Cru- 
ciate. 
44. projectum, Lowe. A narrow, cruciate, crested capitate form, 
with here and there projecting non-cruciate pinnae. Raised by 
myself. Length 15 inches; width where cruciate, 1 inch, where 
projecting, 3 inches. 
*45. proteoides Lowe. Raised from spores by myself from Mr. 
Clapham’s “proteum.” A much finer cruciate form, with projecting 
pinnae, length 25 inches, width 3 to 5 inches. Habit erect, fronds 
stiff, and every frond alike. In Colonel Jones’s “Nature-printed 
Ferns,” proteoides is figured under the name “proteum.” 
46. proteum, Clapham. Found in Cumberland in 1866 by the 
late Mr. Clapham. Half the fronds narrow and cruciate, and half 
normal. 21x4^ inches. 
*47. regale, Lowe (Victorias magnificum, Jones). Raised by 
myself. 25 X 5^ inches. Pinnules lobed ; pinnae broader than in 
Victoriae, 2 \ to 3 inches in length, forming open squares 1 inch in 
diameter. 
48. reticulum, Lowe. Raised by myself. A narrow, profoundly 
dentate, cruciate variety. Length 20 inches, width inches, apex 
pointed. 
49. Stableri, Lowe (cruciato-pinnula Stabler, Fox). 22x7 inches 
middle of frond (where widest). Pinnae crested and apex of frond 
caudate. Raised in 1868 by Mr. G. Stabler, of Levens. 
