BRITISH FERNS. 
4 ? 
drought at the root. Hence any soil suits it, though naturally 
an open, leafy compost is the best. It assumes its greatest 
size and utmost delicacy in sheltered, shady glens near 
running water. In moist climates it does well in the open 
with shelter from wind and sun, but in dry ones is the 
better for glass protection with plenty of air, especially if 
large varietal specimens are in question. The dwarfs are 
less exacting, being naturally less liable to damage by 
wind. Normally the fronds are thin in texture, range 
from 2 feet to 4 feet in length, with a bare stem for -some 
inches, the pinnae 1 inch or 2 inches in length at the bottom, 
widening gradually to 4 inches or 5 inches in the centre, 
and tapering off to the pointed frond-tip, i.e., the fronds 
are broadly lanceolate. They are divided twice or thrice 
(bipinnate or tripinnate) according to size. Abnormally 
this Fern seems capable of anything. The Lady Fern is 
quite deciduous, the fronds dying down in the autumn quite 
independently of frost ; sori horseshoe-shaped, with a 
ragged indusium or cover; spores smoothly oval or kidney- 
shaped. 
Name. 
n here Found 
Finder or Raiser ai 
or Failed. 
Rate. 
ahasilobum 
. — 
.. — 
aerocladon 
. Castle Howard 
Monkman (1160) 
a. densttm 
- 
Stansfield 
(r.) (1S78) 
arutcfoime 
Dent 
J. M. Barnes 
(1870) 
Mrs. Hodgson 
(18C7) 
a. Hodgson 
Tot ver . . 
Axminsterense . 
. — 
. . — 
Blakte 
— 
Parsons (r.) 
canalicnlatum . . 
— 
Stansfield 
(r.) (1S82) 
capitatum 
— 
— 
caput Medusas .. 
- 
Mapplebeck (r.) 
cathedralc 
Lichfield 
More than 
Cathedral 
200 years ago 
Clarissima 
Jones 
North Devon .. 
R. Moule (1SC8) 
C. Bolton 
Lancs. . . 
. T. Bolton and 
friend (1893) 
congestumPaul .. 
Cornwall 
Paul (1864) .. 
c. Phillips.. 
Todmorden 
T. Stansfield (late 
Antrim .. 
Phillips (1888) . . 
c. Whitwell 
Kent mete 
Whitwell (1897) 
c. Simpson 
— 
Simpson (1809) 
Description. 
See mediodeficiens. 
Ramose from base, and 
throughout forming a 
mossy ball. 
Similar, but denser growth. 
Fronds fish-shaped, crested. 
Similar to last. 
See plnmosum Axminster. 
Plumose, beautifully crested; 
nearest approach to su- 
perbum ; probably same 
origin. 
Fine grandiceps, with chan- 
nelled raehis. 
Short fronds, thick crest. 
A crested Frizellie. 
Densely comminuted head, 
with twisted segments. 
Dwarf, prettily cicsted. 
Large, lax, attenuated 
pinna; and pinnules, very 
beautiful, apospory fiist 
discovered on this, soli 
producing prothalli 
instead of spores. 
Smaller than last, and finer 
cut. Is aposporous at all 
points as well as sorally. 
Original a little incon- 
stant, progeny very so ; 
mostly worthless. 
Dense and d waif, very pretty, 
and quite distinct. 
Dense, dwarf, and crispy. 
