BRITISH FERNS. 
73 
P. 
Name. 
acrocladon 
acutilobum 
(Woll) 
capitatum 
eorymbiferum 
cristate gracile . . 
ilensiim 
grandiccps 
Abbottie 
hybridum acu- .. 
leato crucia- 
tum Lowe 
pulcberrimum . . 
P 
Name. 
acrocladon 
acutilobum 
Gray 
a. Hartley 
a. Phillips . 
a. Wollaston 
a. proliferum 
Allchill 
a. p. Cboule 
a. p. Dadds 
a. p. Footii 
a. p. Wells 
a. p. Wollastoncii 
apuseiorme 
Baldwinii . 
bracliiato-cris- 
tatuiu lvcall 
B-adburyanum . 
capitosuiu 
conchatum 
coiiiluens Foot 
c. Moly 
congestum Lyell 
c. Padley . . 
c. Wills 
c. grandiccps 
c uiapicuilobum 
crawfordianum 
cristatuin 
Carbonell 
ACULEATUM (THE HARD SHIELD FERN). 
Where Found Finder or Raiser and 
or Raised. Date. 
South Devon .. Mrs. Agar 
Thompson (1S55) 
— . . Allchin (1S53) . . 
Ilutton Ileef 
Devon . . 
E. F. Fox (r.) 
Bolton (1865) 
Jackson 
Mrs. Abbott 
Description. 
Densely crested at tips, hut 
not like A. f. f. acrocladon ; 
very fine ramose. 
An acutely lobed lax proli- 
ferum. 
Heavy capitate head. 
Corymbose head. 
Very spiny, crested. 
Very foliose. 
A splendidly crested form. 
Lancashire E. J. Lowe(r.)(lS7S). . A narrowed, cruciate form, 
an incontestable cross 
between P. ang. Wakley- 
aiium and P. ac. densum ; 
a most striking hybrid. 
Dorset .. .. Bevis(lS7G) .. .. An unique beauty ; long, 
attenuate, silken divi- 
sions, delicately imbricate 
at frond tips, almost 
always barren, but liberal 
in offsets ; well named the 
“ beautiful.” 
ANGULARE (THE SOFT SHIELD FERN). 
Where Foun l 
or Raised. 
Finder or Raiser and 
Date. 
South Devon .. 
J. E. M apple beck 
(1862) 
South Devon . . 
It. J. Gray (1865) 
Furness Fell 
County Down . 
Mrs. Hartley (1S63) 
W. H. Phillips 
Wollaston (r.) . . 
Allchin.. 
County Clare . . 
Dorset 
South Devon .. 
Cunscy 
Choule . . 
Dadds .. 
F. Foot 
Wells (1876) 
G. B. Wollaston (IS5 
Mrs. Wilson 180a) 
_ 
Kcall .. 
Tatwnrth 
Moly . . 
H iwkhouse 
Moly 
Ireland 
S. Foot . 
South Devon 
Moly (1873) 
— 
Lyell (r.) 
South Devon . . 
Padley (18G5) 

Wills 
— 
Birkenhead 
Dorset . . 
Wills (1S78) 
Carbonell (r.) 
Description. 
Very ramose, A la A. f. f. 
acrocladon, but not so 
dense growing. 
Fronds much divided, lobes 
long, and very acutely 
pointed, forming:! distinct 
and beautilul siclion, 
which embraces all the 
most proliferous forms 
known as “ proliferum,” 
an objectionable sectional 
term, so m my varieties 
of other sections being 
also proliferous to some 
extent. 
Fish-shaped, crested. 
t~ee plu noso divisilobum. 
Most curious form, fronds 
branch into three, trident- 
fashion, each branch 
crested. Keall's is the 
most marked find, but 
several others exist. 
See grandiceps. 
Narrow grandiceps, heavy 
head . 
Pinnules like shells. 
Very slender confluens, 
pinna: like liueare. 
A dwarf, congested gem. 
Densely congested and 
imbricate. 
Congested, dwarf, and fine. 
Heavy chests, congested. 
The “thumb” of the pin- 
nules very conspicuous 
Sec acutilobum prolifeiura. 
Slender, crested form. 
