SCOI.OPENDRIUM. 
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Sub-section. Ramo-in/EQUALE. (Unequally branched.) 
i. admirabile, Lowe. Raised by myself. 12 xo| inches. Punch- 
ing, and crested with narrow divisions ; margin regularly dentate. 
*2. Alexandra, Lowe. Raised by the late Colonel Jones from 
Victoria, and more ramose than that variety. Length, 11 inches ; 
width across the ramose head, 6 inches. Rachis linear and dentate. 
3. arbusculare, Lowe. Raised by myself. Length, 9 inches, and 
width across the head, 7 inches ; stem naked ; palmate. 
4. Atkinsoni, Lowe (inaequale furcans Atkinson, Wollaston). 
Raised in 1876 by Mr. C. J. Atkinson. Length, 14 inches ; width 
across the branches, 10 inches. A very pleasing form. 
5. blandum, Lowe. A ramose form raised by myself. 
6. capitatum, Lowe (inaequale capitatum, Lowe). Raised by 
myself. 18 Xi inches. Margin deeply and variously cut ; the capi- 
tate part also much cut ; the crest 5 inches wide. A bold fern with 
a straggling stag’s-horn-like crest. 
7. concavum, Lowe (concavo-ramosum, Clapham). Raised by 
the late Mr. Clapham. Length, 7 inches, leafy portion only 2 
inches. Stipes branching at base into 5 or 6 fronds that are 
concave ; margin irregular ; rachis also branching and crested. 
8. conjungendum, Lowe. Found in Devon by the Rev. F. Mules. 
13x1 inches. Tvvin-fronded, strap-shaped and multifid ; the divi- 
sions angular and pointed. 
9. constellatum, Lowe. Raised by Mr. Glave. A dwarf, stem- 
branching form ; depauperate below the numerous bunch crests ; 
length, 6 inches. 
10. cristatum, Lowe (ramo-cristatum, Wollaston). Found in S. 
Devon in 1862, by Mr. Moly. Length, 10 inches. An interesting 
ramose, crested form. 
11. Delesserioides, Lowe. Raised by myself. 18x0^ inches. 
Stipes branching and rebranching, not unlike the red seaweed. 
Delesseria sinuosa, Lamonrj is a very singular variety. 
*12. Elworthii, Lowe (inasquale-furcans Elworthy, Wollaston). 
Raised in 1873 by the late Mr. Elworthy. Length, 9 inches ; width 
across the branching head, 9 inches. 
*13. formosum, Lowe. Raised by myself. 14X0I inches. 
Branching, margin irregular ; the branches twisting across each 
other ; the tips laciniately crested. 
*14. gloriosum, Lowe. Raised by myself. 22X1J inches. 
Irregular outline, as if bitten in places. Branching most on one 
side. Stipes, 7 inches ; head 7 inches across. 
15. keratoides, Lowe (inaequale cristatum, Jones). Raised by 
the late Mr. Clapham. 9 xcA inches. Branching and rebranching 
into a head 4 inches across. All parts of the frond narrow and 
irregularly lacerate ; very stag’s-horn-like. 
16. laudabile, Lowe. Raised by myself. 15x1 inches. Branch- 
ing in the stipes, and having a crest 6 inches across, composed of 
broad divisions. Margin irregular. 
*17. mirabile, Lowe. Raised by myself. 7X1 inches. Widening 
