BRITISH FERNS. 
Name. 
Where Fount 
Finder or Raiser and 
or Raised. 
Date. 
perserratnm 
— 
Bailey . . 
Baylje 
p. Patey .. 
Beiks 
Patey (1S73) . . 
p. Wollaston 
South Devon . 
Wollaston (1SG9) 
plumoso- 
— 
— 
divisolobum 
p.-d. grande 
— 
. Fox (r.) . . 
p.-d. tenue 
- 
.. Fox (r.) . . 
p.-d. Baldwinii .. 

. . Jones and Fox (r.) 
p.-d. densum 
— 
.. ,, ,, ,, 
p.-d. imbri- 
— 
• • 1> >» >» 
eatum 
p.-d. laxum 
— 
•• »> »J J> 
p.-d. robustum .. 
— 
•• n >i »» 
p.-d. dissectum . . 
p.-d. foliosum 
— 
Pearson (r.) 
p.-d. Pearson 
— 
>* >> 
p.-d. Grimmondii 
Scotland 
— 
p.-d. Esplan 
— 
— 
plumosum 
Ehvorthy 
Somerset 
El worthy (1S5C) 
p. Moly . . 
— 
Moly 
p. Patey 
Dorset . . 
Patey 
p. Wollaston 
Devon 
G. B. Wollaston 
p. grande 
— 
Fox(r.).. 
p. perfectum 
— 
Birkenhead (r.) 
p. splendens 
— 
Col. Jones (r.) . . 
plumosissimuin .. 
— 
Birkenhead (r.) 
polydaetylum 
Jones 
p. Wills 
p. splendens 
p. Wollaston 
Praegerii 
pi'olifenim 
pteropherum 
pnlcherrimum 
Moly 
p. Padley 
p. Thompson 
]>. Wills 
p. polydaetylum . . 
p. variegatum 
Moly 
Hampshire 
Somerset 
Castle Dobbs . . 
Nettlecombe . . 
North Devon . . 
South Devon .. 
Jones (1875) 
Wills 
Jones (r.) 
Wollaston (1870) 
Praeger (1S85) . . 
Elworlhy 
Moly 
Pad Icy 
Thompson (1808) 
Wills 
Stansfleld (r. ) 
Moly 
Description. 
All three very delicate, 
deeply cut, and setose 
forms ; very beautiful. 
A sectional term, embracing 
the best, viz. 
A cross between dreomp. 
splendens and plumosum 
Wollaston ; a grand foliose 
form. 
Another beauty ; slenderer 
make. 
Incomparably the finest 
plumose forms of the spe- 
cies. raised from decomp, 
splendens of Moly, a 
merely decomposite sport, 
occasionally sparsely fer- 
tile and bulbiferous. 
Baldwinii is the finest cut, 
and unique. 
”1 All three akin to the above 
I and very beautiful. 
Similar; splendid form. 
Rivals all but Baldwinii ; 
quite distinct in its star- 
fish-like habits; origin 
foggy. 
Very beautiful and distinct. 
Very fine form, reputedly 
barren. 
A true plumosum ; a gem, 
rarely fertile. 
A grand, fertile plumosum. 
Splendid, robust. 
The latest departure. In 
addition to the finest 
plumoso divisilobe charac- 
ter, all the ultimate divi- 
sions extend into lung, 
tongue-like tails, piling up 
a moss-like growth upon 
the frond. A type of 
apospory; unique 
Fine polydactylous. 
A better form ; foliose and 
crested. 
Small side crests ; large, 
spreading head. 
See laxo-cristatum. 
See acutilobum proliferum. 
Pinnules congested on 
pinna;, resembling wings. 
A very beautiful type when 
in form, with long, falcate 
lower pinnules, the points 
of which run out into pro- 
thalli (apospory) ; the sites 
of the soil are also usually 
prothalliferous. The first 
four are all apt to revert 
wholly or partially. The 
last is unique, constant, 
and boldly variegated j el- 
low and green ; aposporoiis 
progeny of all mostly de- 
pauperate and ugly weak- 
lings. 
