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The localities of this Eern are — 
Combe St. Nicholas ; near Wadeford. 
Dalwood ; near Sunnyland. 
Hawkchurch ; Cowse. 
Musburj ; in the hedge-bank of a wood near Bullmoor. 
6. Sharp-pointed Common Polypody. Acutum, The lobes 
gradually taper to a point. At the base they are rather 
broader than in the common form. If a lobe is forked, 
each fork narrows gradually in the same way. Sometimes 
the lobes are serrulate, {ix, very slightly serrated). This 
is not uncommon at Dalwood. 
7. Many-formed Common Polypody. Multiforme, A 
single plant of this variety has been discovered on the 
hedge-bank of a common in Northleigh parish. This is 
divided into two branches or branched lobes at the summit, 
with an intermediate undivided lobe. All the lobes narrow 
gradually to an acute point. The branched lobes have a 
semicircular enlargement near their base, and seem to be 
cut, as it were, by a pair of scissors from the middle lobe. 
One of the lowest lobes of this Polypody is forked at the 
extremity. All the leaflets are obscurely serrated at distant 
intervals and in some parts deeply notched. Other plants 
are sometimes branched near the base or middle of the 
frond. Sometimes, too, the mid-vein runs beyond the lobes. 
There is no regularity in the formation of this variety. 
8. Margined Common Polypody. Marginatum, The 
frond of this variety has in certain parts the outer skin 
(epidermis) of the upper or under part of the leaf splitting 
in an irregular line and shrinking back towards the mid- 
vein. As after cases of fever there is a peeling off of the 
skin, so here also the skin seems to shrink from the edge 
towards the mid-vein without quitting the substance to 
which it was attached, but sticking up in a line. In the 
human body it is the effect of disease, but here it is the 
natural growth of the plant. This is more strikingly 
exhibited in some varieties of Hartstongue. This specimen 
was growing at Berry, Hawkchurch. M. 
9. Interrupted Common Polypody. Interruptum, Here 
we And some lobes or leaflets shorter than the others and 
some altogether disappearing, others cut near their ends 
