SCOI.OPENDRIUM. 
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Sub-section. Ramo-IN^EQUALE. (Unequally branched.) 
X. admirabile, Lowe. Raised by myself. 12 Xo| inches. Branch- 
ing, and crested with narrow divisions ; margin regularly dentate. 
*2. Alexandras, Lowe. Raised by the late Colonel Jones from 
Victoria, and more ramose than that variety. Length, 1 1 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 (inmquale 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. Twin-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. 18X0J inches. 
Stipes branching and rebranching, not unlike the red seaweed. 
Delesseria sinuosa, Lamourj is a very singular variety. 
*12. Ehvorthii, 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, Lo%ve. 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. 9x0^- 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, L^owe. Raised by myself. 7X1 inches. Widening 
