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distinct ; broad at the base, with a narrow attachment ; 
blunt at the point ; flat and not deeply divided. The 
clusters of spores lie in two lines near the mid-rib. Uplyme. 
5. Torn Lady Eern. Laciniatum. M. The lance- 
shaped outline of the frond of this variety is broken by the 
shortness of some of the pinnae. Some of them are very 
tiny indeed, others taper in the ordinary form, while others 
appear to be bitten ofi*. The leaflets are not stalked but 
seem torn and vary in size and form. The clusters of spores 
are numerous and crowded about the base of the leaflets. 
Monkton Wylde. Hawkchurch. 
6. Crested Lady Eern. Multijidum. M. This, though 
it must be classed among the irregular varieties, is most 
symmetrical and graceful. The frond is broadly lance-shaped , 
sometimes two or three feet high. The leaflets are narrow, 
linear, scarcely stalked, and much resembling those of the^ 
erect Lady Eern. The tips of the pinnae are elegantly 
forked or trifid, as in the other crested varieties, and these 
segments minutely forked at their ends. The neatly divided 
leaflets, the delicate green colour, with the tasseled head of 
the frond and pinnae give a beauty to this plant, which he 
must be sadly devoid of taste, who cannot descry. Hawk- 
church ; at Cowse. Thorncombe. 
7. Sharply-pointed Crested Lady Eern. Acuminato 
multijidum, W. This difiers from the ordinary Crested 
Lady Eern in having each pinna and the apex of the frond 
much more tapering previous to its being forked or trifid. 
M. Hawkchurch. 
8. Irregular Lady Eern. Irregulare, M. The pinnae 
are distant in the upper half of the frond they are furnished 
with narrow lance-shaped or linear leaflets, which are 
tolerably regular, acute, cut on their edges, and three 
quarters of an inch long ; in the lower half the leaflets are 
considerably and irregularly shortened, frequently they are 
round or fan-shaped with serrated lobes. M. Hawkchurch. 
9. Hoary Irregular Lady Eern. Truinoso irregulare, 
W. This is not so irregular as the preceding and is peculiar 
for having a hoary appearance resembling the bloom on a 
newly gathered plum. Erom being covered with minute 
glands this may be noticed both in the stalk and mid-stem 
of the frond. M. Hawkchurch. 
