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resembles the Chaffy Male Fern (Paleacea). The plant is 
scarcely hipinnate, as hardly any of its pinnse have distinct 
leaflets. Hawkchurch. M. 
Curled Male Fern. Crispata, This is quite the common 
form except that it is curled and waved in every part of the 
frond. Hawkchurch. 
Daek-scaled Feen. Lastrea dilatata. 
See page 36. 
1. Diminutive Dark-scaled Fern. Fumila, In describing 
the parts of a Fern, (page 6) the Dark-scaled Fern, Lastrea 
dilatata^ was selected as presenting an illustration of a 
tripinnate frond. This variety differs from the ordinary 
form, inasmuch as it is only hipinnate, i,e,, no leaflet of any 
pinna is distinctly branched. The scales are very light, 
and only faintly darker in the centre. The frond itself has 
an almost triangular outline. The plant is scarcely a foot 
high. The leaflets are broad at their extremities and 
coarsely toothed. 
The localities of this Fern are — 
* Dalwood ; Dane’s hill. 
Hawkchurch ; Scatteridge, and in a Wood near the Inn 
at Lambert’s Castle. 
Southleigh ; Wiscombe Wood. 
* Thorncombe ; Forde Abbey. 
2. Dark Scaled Fern of the Hill. Collina. This is a very 
beautiful variety, having a dark green frond, sometimes 
triangular and sometimes lance-shaped, with a much shorter 
stalk, scarcely half its length, and thickly covered at its 
base with dark scales, which have a transparent margin and 
their very tips almost black. The two pairs of the two 
lowest pinnae are triangular : the others linear. The first 
upper pinnule of the lowest pinnae is much shorter than the 
first under one. In every other pinna there is very little 
difference between the pinnules that are above and below 
their respective rachis. The lowermost pinnules of the 
