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THE BOOK OF 
Name. 
Where Found 
Finder or Raiser and 
or Raised 
Date. 
reiuoto- 
decurrens 
South Devon 
Padley 
revolvens 
Somerset and 
elsewhere 
Wills (1872) and 
others 
rotundatum 
Somerset 
El worthy 
El worthy 
r. Hodgson 
Lecce 
Mrs. Hodgson . . 
r. Phillips. . 
Antrim . . 
Phillips (1877) . . 
rotundato capi- . 
— 
Barnes (r.) 
tatum Barnes 
r. crueiatum 
— 
Lowe (r.) 
r. c. Hankey 
— 
Hankey (r.) 
setoso 
South Devon 
Moly (1874) . . 
cristatum 
s. cuneatum 
Antrim .. 
Phillips 
s. gracile 
Castle Coole 
stipitatum 
— 
Carbonell (r.) ,. 
Carbone) 1 
Thompsons 
North Devon 
Mrs. Thompson 
(1860) 
tripinnatnm 
Gillelt 
Yeovil 
Gillett (18G4) .. 
t. Millett 
— 
— 
t. Padley 
— 
— 
ven ust 11 m.. 
— 
Padley .. 
v. cristatum 
— 
Wakelevanum . . 
South Devon .. 
Mrs. Wakeley (1 
Description. 
Broad, pinnuled confluens ; 
thorny. 
Fronds revolute, forming 
tubes ; very graceful. 
'| Peculiar and pretty ; pin- 
I nules smoothly rounde l, 
|’ with little trace of the 
) specific mitten shape. 
Round pinnuled, large 
crests. 
Successful crosses between 
crueiatum and rotunda- 
tum ; cruciate pinuaj, 
rounded pinnules. 
A brirtly cristatum ; a gem. 
A eem ; beautiful lax form, 
like a lax perserratum. 
A slender setosum. 
Beautifully divided ; long, 
attenuate pinnules. 
A narrow - trended grandi- 
ceps ; seedlings start dll 
acrocladon, and alter 
materially as adults ; a 
curious case. 
j All beautifully thrice 
divided, but distinct from 
I each other. 
A handsome multilobe. 
Ditto ; crested. 
Narrow, cruciate fronds, 
crested at tips ; an unique 
find. 
PTERIS AQUILINA. 
(The Common Brake or Bracken.) 
THIS grand Fern is so common as to need no description, 
thousands of acres are covered by it, even in districts 
otherwise Fernless. Hence we will save our space for its 
varieties and peculiarities. In the first place, it is the only 
member we have of a very large family, and is botanically 
distinguished by its spore heaps being arranged along the 
edges of the pinnules and protected by such edges being rolled 
back to cover them. It is one of the most difficult Ferns to 
remove, its long rambling stolons penetrating to considerate 
depths, and usually losing their roots proper altogether in the 
process of lifting. On the other hand, it is one of the easiest 
and rapidest Ferns to raise from spores, autumn-sown spores 
yielding strong plants, with fronds i foot to 2 feet high, the 
following season. Raised thus in pots or pans, and planted 
out in the open in the late summer, they will harden off, and 
come up robustly the following year ; kept in the pot or pan 
and allowed to get frozen in the winter they are almost 
infallibly killed, hardy as they are when once established and 
