108 BRITISH FERNS. — SUB-ORDER II. TRIBE 10. 
1 8. percristatum, Gray (cristato gracile, Gray). Minutely crested. 
19. Pbillipsii, Lowe (cristatum Phillips, Wollaston). Found in 
1870, in Co. Down, by Mr. W. H. Phillips. A dwarf, broad, crested 
variety. Crests small. 12x5 inches. 
20. Praegeri, Lowe (cristatum Castle Dobbs, Praeger). Found 
in 1884, at Castle Dobbs, by Mr. Praeger. 28x6 inches. A lax 
crested form. 
21. setosum, Lowe (setoso-cristatum, Moore). Found in 1874, 
in South Devon, by Mr. J. Moly. Length, 19 inches, A crested 
“ setosum.” 
22. subcristaturn, Praeger. Found in 1885, at Castle Dobbs, by 
Mr. Praeger. 12X3J inches. Subcrested. 
23. Thompsons?, Moore (cristatum Mrs. Thompson, Wollaston). 
Found in i860, in North Devon, by Mrs. Agar Thompson. A very 
narrow, close-crested variety, with a compact capitate head. 20 x 2 i 
inches. I his fern is sometimes branched and crested. 
24. Willsii, Lowe (percristatum, Wills). Found by Mr. Wills. 
Very distinct. 20x5 inches. 
25. Wollastoni, Lowe (cristatum, Wollaston). 21X6 inches. 
Found in 1870, in Somerset, by Mr. G. B. Wollaston. Narrowing 
to the large capitate head ; crests small. 
Section 5. POLYDACTYLUM. (Pinnae digitate, not bunched.) 
1. conspicuilobum, Lowe (polydactylum-conspicuilobum, Jones). 
A good polydactylous form. 28 X 6 inches. 
2. cruciatum, Lowe (cruciato-polydactylum,y<?«£y). 26x2 inches. 
In the late Colonel Jones’s collection. A good form. 
3. erectum, Padley. An erect polydactylum. 
4. furcillatum, Phillips. Pinnae slightly forked. 
5. grande, Lowe (polydactylum grande, Jones). 24x9 inches. 
Very large pinnules. A fine variety, 
. Jonesii, Lowe (polydactylum, Jones). Found in Hampshire 
in 1875. It differs from Padleyi in having the two pairs of basal 
pinnae much longer than the rest, and in the rachis dividing some 
6 inches from the apex of the frond, and again subdividing into a 
crested head 8 inches broad. 24x6 inches (at base). 
7. Padleyi, Lowe (polydactylum, Padley). Found in 1862, in the 
Vale of Avoca, by the late Rev. C. Padley. Frond slightly narrower 
at the base and scarcely polydactylous at the apex. "24x6 inches. 
8. polydactylum, Moore. Found in Tipperary in 1857. A 
slender crested form. 
9. ramoso-pinnatum, Jones. 24x6 inches (at base). A lax, 
acute, pinnuled form, with branching pinna? on the basal half of the 
frond. 
10. scalptum, Ca 7 -boncll. Raised by the late Mr. Carbonell. A 
slender polydactylous decompositum. 15X5 inches. 
11. splendens, Lowe (polydactylum splendens, Jones). Raised 
by the late Colonel Jones from Mr. Padley’s Vale of Avoca poly- 
dactylum. 
