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narrower leaflets or pinnules. The pinnules, too, vary in 
length. A shorter or stunted or imperfect leaflet here or 
there appears on a pinna. In most cases the fronds of this 
character were intermixed on the same plant with those of 
the preceding variety. It seems, therefore, that ours is only 
an approach to what Moore calls Angusti-pinnula. Shute. 
4. Interrupted Dark-scaled Dern. Interrupta, This is 
quite irregular in its appearance and growth. Sometimes a 
pinna is wanting, sometimes it is stunted and defective, and 
sometimes the leaflets disappear near the middle, while it 
is quite regular towards its tip. It appears like a wounded 
soldier who has lost his arm or leg and yet no scar appears. 
The shortened pinnse are jagged or laciniated, and some- 
times the leaflets are perfect on one side of the mid-stem 
of the pinnaB and appear shattered on the other, nay, on 
that side the leaflets may altogether disappear. This is 
of the variety collina and of the ordinary size. Hawk- 
church. M. 
Hat-scented Debn. Lastrea Fceniseciu 
See jpage 41. 
1. Interrupted Hay-scented P. Interrupta, This, like 
the preceding, has its pinnae and leaflets some small and 
short, and others of the regular form. They are not, how- 
ever, jagged and laciniated, as is the case in many interrupted 
varieties, though they may assume a grotesque appearance. 
The head or higher part of the frond assumes the regular 
habit of this species. Hawkchurch. 
2. Branched Hay-scented P. Bamosa, The peculiarity 
of this is, that it is forked both at the base and summit 
of the plant, and thereby its elegance and symmetry is 
destroyed. Monkton Wylde. M. 
Spinous Peen. Lastrea Spinulosa. 
See jgage 44. 
Interrupted Spinous P. Interrupta, This variety has 
the egg-shaped transparent scales of the Spinous Pern. 
