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jutting out of the side, and after that jutting out,^ they 
then taper to the extremity, and are in fact triangular. 
They have no distinct stalk, but a broad attachment, and 
are distant from one another. When the covers of the fruit 
disappear, the clusters are almost round and spread over 
nearly the whole of the under surface. This grows in more 
exposed situations on our wet commons rather than our 
woods and sheltered hedge-banks. 
SEGMENTS OF FINN/B OP PLUMOUS EADY FERN. 
3. Plumous Lady Tern. 'Plumosum, Elegant as the 
Lady Eern always is, this variety is still more elegant and 
graceful than the other Ferns of the species. Though the 
fronds are frequently very large, yet nature has so elegantly 
adjusted all its parts, so neatly divided every portion of the 
leaflets, given it such a soft green colour, and so raised it in 
an erect position without being stifi* and awkward, that we 
may pronounce it the fairest of the fair. If it could be 
imagined that the King Fern, the Eoyal Flowering Fern, 
Osmunda Eegalis, should select any other as the object of his 
choice, and make her his bride, this surely he would fix upon 
and in this he would delight. The root-stock is very large. 
The stalk or leafless part is a fourth the length of the frond. 
The rachis or mid-stem is woody. The frond is egg-shaped 
or broadly lance-shaped and tripinnate, as the lowest pinnules 
or leaflets of some of the lower pinnae are subdivided into 
