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introduced as being likely to occur in Scotland, and also to show that 
the genus Athyrium is not restricted to the lanceolate form of frond). 
** Frond lanceolate. 
Athyrium ovatum. 
1795. Polyp odium dentatum, Hoffm. Deutsch. Flor. ii. 6. 
1800. Athyrium ovatum, Roth, FI. Germ. iii. 64 ; Newm. 
F. 420, Phytol. iv. 368. 
Athyrium Filix-femina, var. dentatum, Newm. F. 203, ad 
partem. 
Asplenium Filix-foemina, var. latifolium, Hook, and Am. 
574 ; Bah. 413 ; Houlston and \ Moore, Gard. Mag. of 
Bot. iii. 262. 
Frond lax, flaccid, dark green, lanceolate, pinnate ; pin- 
nae scarcely ascending, approximate, flattened, pinnate ; 
pinnules ovate, distinctly stalked, crowded, overlapping, 
lobed at the base, toothed at the apex; clusters of capsules 
elongate as in Asplenium, in a series on each side of the 
pinnule hut distant from it. A large plant, two to three 
feet high. 
Rare ; found in the neighbourhood of Keswick by Miss 
Beever and Miss Wright. 
Oh.s. — The prior name of dentatum is discarded on account of its 
identity with another Polypodium dentatum. 
Athyrium molle. 
Polypodium molle, Schreher, Spic. Flor. Lips. 70 ; Ehrh. 
Crypt. 9 ; Hoffm. Deutscli. Flor. ii. 6. 
Athyrium molle, Roth, Flor. Germ. iii. 61 ; Newm. N. A. 
26. 
Athyrium Filix-femina, var. molle, Newm. F. 242. 
Athyrium Filix-femina, y. Bah. 413. 
Frond lax, flaccid, bright green, broadly lanceolate, pin- 
nate ; pinnae scarcely ascending, approximate, flattened, 
pinnate, subpinnate, or pinnatifid ; pinnules blunt, approx- 
imate, connected by the wing of the midrib ; clusters of 
capsules in a series on each side of the midrib of the pin- 
nule, and very near it. Generally a small plant, twelve to 
