Plate 39 . 
CRYPTOGRAMME . cbispa, Br. 
Curled Rock-Brake, or Parsley Fern. 
Gen. Char. Sori roundish or oblong, submarginal, soon confluent. In¬ 
volucre formed by the revolute margin of the pinnules, which in a young 
state meet at the back. Veins forked. Fertile fronds dissimilar to the 
sterile ones. 
Cryptogramme crispa; caudex short, thick, scaly; stipites tufted, numerous; 
fronds of two kinds, submembranaceous, triangular-ovate ; sterile ones bi- 
pinnate; pinnules bi-tripinnatifid, segments cuneate or oblong, rarely ellip¬ 
tical and pinnatifido-serrate, often bidentate; fertile fronds on longer 
stipites, bipinnate, tripinnate below; pinnules linear-oblong (rarely ellip¬ 
tical), obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base; involucres in age quite spread¬ 
ing from the copious confluent sori. 
Cryptogramme crispa. Brown in Richard's App. to Fran/cl. First Journ.p. 54. 
Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 113. Hook, and Am. Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 402. Hook. 
Sp. Fil. v. 2. p. 128. 
Phorolobus crispus. Besv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. p. 291. t. 11. Fee , Gen. 
Fii.p. 130. t. 6 B. 
Allosorus crispus. Bernh. in Schrad. N. Journ. Bot. 1800. v. \. pt. 2 . p. 536. 
Pr. Tent. Pterid.p. 152. Metten. Moore, Brit. Ferns, Nat. Print, t. 8. 
Allosorus minutus. Turcz. Phi. Imag. et Bescr. FI. Ross. p. 9. t. 3. 
Pteris crispa. Linn. MS., fide 8m., Eng. Bot. t. 1160. Sw. 8yn. Fil. p. 101. 
Schk. Fil. p. 90. t. 98. mild. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 395. Sm. Eng. FI. v. 4. 
p. 319. 
Osmunda crispa. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1522. 
Pteris Stelleri, Gmel. Allosorus, Rupr. 
Hal. Rocks, especially such as are loose, and stone walls. “ Frequent on the 
mountains (up to 2-3000 feet of elev.) of Scotland and the northern pro¬ 
vinces, with a few outlying stations on the much lower hills of the Severn 
and Peninsula/’ H. Watson. Ireland; mountainous countries in the north; 
abundant in the Mourne Mountains, Mackay. 
This elegant Fern is so totally unknown in all the south and 
middle of England, that botanists who visit the north-west of 
England and many parts of Scotland and Ireland are struck 
with its great beauty. It adorns many rocks and stone walls 
among the English lakes. In Ireland it would appear to be 
wholly confined to the mountainous countries of the north. 
