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The bcok of 
compost, into which the creeping rhizomes can embed them- 
selves on the surface and ramble freely. It also does sp’endidly 
when installed in suspended wire baskets, displaying itself, 
perhaps, to the best possible advantage when so treated and 
not allowed to dry out. When once properly installed, the 
less the plant is disturbed the better the growth, and, under 
such circumstances, what this normally mediocre-looking plant 
can do in its varietal forms is simply astounding. It loves light 
and air, as we may judge by its haunts, and can even stand 
a fair amount of sun if drought be avoided. 
Kame. 
bifido- 
multifidum 
cambricum 
c. Barrowii 
c. Hadwinii 
c. Oakeley.-c 
c. Prestonii 
Where Found 
or liaised. 
Grange 
Many 
Wilherslack . . 
Silverdale 
Raglan 
Yelland 
Finder or Kaiser and 
Late. 
Valmsley (1SG7) 
Many 
Barrow (1874) .. 
Had win (1875) . 
Oakeley (RkiS) _ _ 
Preston (1871) . . 
cornubiense 
(elegantis- 
simum) 
Cornwall 
Whyte and 
others (1SG7) 
c. foliosum 
c. F'owlerii 
c. plumosa 
1 1 1 
Clapham(r.) .. 
Fowler (r.) 
Barnes (r.) 
c. tricho- 
manoidcs 
— 
Backhouse 
cristatum 
County Cork . . 
Perry (1854) 
c. Morleyii 
glomeratum 
Dot set .. 
Morley 
Mullins (1S7S).. 
grandiceps 
Forster 
g. Fox 
g. Parker 
Grange .. 
Somerset 
Clewarth (1S7G) 
Mrs. Fox (1SGS) 
Parker (1854) . . 
Hutcliisonii 
Caimaithcn 
nutchison (1S89) 
longipinnatum 
Killarney 
Druery .. 
macrostachya 
County Clare . . 
0 Kelly 
multifido 
elegantissimum 
- 
Claphatn (r.) . . 
omnilacerum 
Aldrenii 
Milnthorp 
Aldren (1S73) .. 
Description. 
Long narrow fronds bifid, 
pinnae, broad crested head. 
The plumose form of the 
species, splendidly 
fuliose, quite barren, and 
the pinnae divided into 
long, overlapping 
segments. The three first- 
named forms are distinct 
in detail, and by far the 
finest, (lakleyae is a dwarf 
edition. All are gems. 
Hadwinii is distinguished 
by obtuse tipped segments 
(page6G.); Prestonii has 
them longerand very acute 
Very finely divided into 
linear segments ; usually 
reverts erratically to nor- 
mal in places. Fertile, but 
the improved forms were 
all, we helieve, raised 
from divisions. 
| More finely divided ; apt 
I to get coarse. 
Fronds broader and more 
foliose, but finely cut. 
Elegantissimum kept true by 
selection. Probably the best 
of all the section ; a gem. 
Pi ettily crested at all tips. 
(Page 67.) 
Crested, but less markedly. 
Curiously and broadly 
ramose in all fronds, 
coarse. 
l Ileavily tasselled, capitate 
J- head. Two finest forms, 
J quite distinct. 
Huge spreading, termina. 
crests, with crispy tips, 
often no pinnte ; unique. 
Resembles trichomanoides, 
with lax apex. 
Very long, attenuate pin- 
nules ; frond 6 inches 
wide. 
Very distinct and constant ; 
upper third of frond un- 
divided caudate. 
A cross between cornubiense 
and bifido-cristatum, i.e., 
a crested cornubiense. 
Grand divided variety when 
in form, but very rarely 
seen so. 
