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Newman says, The fronds are narrow-lanceolate.” Moore 
says, “ Broad-lanceolate.” Our specimens are truly lance- 
shaped. In a fine group they are sometimes five feet high. 
The mid-rib of the pinnse are more or less tinged with 
purple and often there is a purple spot at their base. 
If this variety were placed in some of our wild, neglected 
spots, especially if' the ground be moist, and made an 
undergrowth to our wooded slopes, this golden coloured 
wildling would convert naked and unpicturesque hills into 
the most romantic and lovely scenery. 
This form of the Male Fern is found in many of our wet 
woods ; whosoever searches for it, should particularly look 
out for the golden coloured scales, which so abundantly 
cover the stalk and root-stock. 
3. Curled Chafiy Male Fern. Faleacea crispa, Moore. 
This variety has a broad frond with broad leaflets that 
overlap each other and curl or undulate so as to form little 
folds on the surface. It is a large handsome plant of a 
deep green colour. The leaflets have no stalk, though, 
sometimes, the lowest have a narrow attachment. It seems 
to be a subvariety of the preceding variety, as it has the 
rich golden chaffy scales. This is not uncommon in dense, 
moist woods, and very shady lanes, where the Chaffy Male 
Fern abounds. 
4. Narrow-fronded Male Fern. Augusta^ Moore. This 
is a new variety not before noticed in any of our books on 
Ferns. The fronds here are peculiarly narrow : if a foot 
long without the stalk (stipes) they are not more than an 
inch broad. The leaffets too are very small, not a fourth 
the size of those belonging to a fine specimen of the 
ordinary Male Fern. They are also oblong, rather blunt at 
the apex, generally without a stalk, having only a broad 
attachment to the mid-stem. Their edges seem not to be 
the least cut or notched. The stalk and mid-stem of the 
frond are densely covered with scales. Hawkchurch. M. 
5. Unicorn Male Fern. Cornuta, Moore. This also is a 
new variety and is abrupt at its apex and has its mid-stem 
protruding at its end beyond the leafy part, which appears 
like a little horn. The lower part of this protruding mid- 
stem or horn is densely hairy. In other respects the plant 
