64 BRITISH FERNS. — SUB-ORDER II. TRIBE 8. 
5. decoratum, Lows. From the late Colonel Jones’s collection. 
History not known. A subplumose, narrow, lax form ; very sym- 
metrical. A great beauty. 23x6 inches. 
*6. dilatatum, Mapplebeck. Rather foliose. 
7. divaricatum, Lowe (plumosum-divaricatum, Moore). Found 
in 1872 in Lancashire by Mr. W. Morris. Pinnules almost per- 
pendicular to the main stem. A very fine divaricate plumosum. 
30X12 inches. 
8. elegans, Lowe (plumosum-elegans, Parsons). Raised by Mr. 
Parsons. Slender, with finely cut pinnules. 28 X 7 inches. 
9. foliosum, Druery. Found at Ilfracombe in 1881. A true 
foliosum. 
10. frondoso-cristatum,yb»i?j(in the late Colonel Jones’s collection). 
u. Hodgsonas, Z<?m? (subplumosum Hodgson, Jones). Found by 
Mrs. Hodgson in 1870 near Ulverston. A very slender featherlike 
fern. 16x6 inches. Very lax ; with beautiful pinnules, finely cut. 
12. kalothrix, Lowe. Raised in 1870 by Mr. Howlett. 18x6 
inches. A most lovely, delicate, pale-green, hair-like form. 
*13. Longridgense, Lowe. A subplumose form found on Long- 
ridge Fell in 1846 by myself. A large and graceful variety. 30X 12 
inches. 
14. multifidum, Lowe (plumoso-multifidum, Stansfield). Found 
about i860 on Ben Lawers by Mr. W. Marshall. A feathery form 
of multifidum. 
15. plumosum, Moore. Found in Yorkshire in i860 by Mr J. 
Horsfall. A fine plumose variety. 33x8 inches. 
16. Smithii, Lowe (plumosum Smith, Jones). Length 20 inches, 
width 12 inches. A handsome fertile plumosum variety. Found 
by Mr. Smith in Darley Dale. 
17. Stansfieldii, Lowe (plumosum-Stansfieldii, Stansfield). 
Raised by Messrs. Stansfield from kalothrix ; a larger and less 
fragile form than that lovely variety. A most beautiful plumosum. 
18. subplumosum, Padley. Found near Nettlecombe by the late 
Mr. C. Ehvorthy. 26x8^ inches. A very elegant plumose form. 
*19. superbum, Lowe (plumosum-superbum, Druery). Raised by 
Mr. C. T. Druery. One of a number of lovely ferns raised by Mr. 
Druery. 
20. Thompsoni, Lowe. A singular plumose form, the pinnae 
furcating near the ends, and the tips being caudate. Found at 
Mousehole, Cornwall, by Mr. R. A. Thompson. 24x7 inches. 
Apex furcate. 
21. Willsii, Lowe (plumosum Wills, Jones). Found in Dorset in 
1869 by Mr. J. S. Wills. Very robust. Mr. Wills had a plant 
6 feet high and as much wide. 
Section / 3 . DISSECTUM. 
(Subdivision of ultimate segments without marked increase in 
development of soft parts.) 
1. Barnesii, Claphain. Raised by Mr. Barnes, of Thirsk. Some- 
what in the way of pulcherrimum, though distirct. 
