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hair Spleenworfc in having its head or apex two or three 
times forked. Plants have been found in the hedge-bank 
of a lane between Alston and Churchill in the parish of 
Chardstock, and also in the parishes of Kilmington and 
Shute. 
2. Lobed Maidenhair Spleenwort. Lobatum, M. The 
peculiarity of this variety consists in having the leaflets, 
especially those in the middle of the frond, furnished with 
two broad inversely egg-shaped lobes. The lowest ones are 
sometimes divided to the mid-rib. Hawkchurch. Shute. 
Stockland. 
3. Moule’s Maidenhair Spleenwort. Mould. S.* This 
variety has a linear frond and is rather smaller than the 
ordinary form. The leaflets also are small, deeply cut on 
the edges and often to the mid-rib, having two or three 
triangular lobes on each side. The leaflets also abound in 
fructification, which is rarely the case with Asplenium, 
Incisum. This is a tiny and elegant plant two or three 
inches high. M. Hawkchurch. 
Black:- STALKED Spleenwort. Asplenium adiantum nigrum. 
See ^age 57 . 
1. Forked Black-stalked Spleenwort. T'urcatum. A 
plant has been discovered growing on a hedge-bank of the 
turnpike road on the Axminster side of Musbury with all 
its fronds forked at the summit. The divisions w ere blunter 
at their ends, and the clusters of seed nearer the margin of 
their leaflets, and in a shorter line than in the ordinary form. 
2. Sharp-leaved Black-stalked Spleenwort. Oxyphyllum. 
M. This is a coarse plant of moderate size with lance-shaped 
fronds and decurrent pinnae. The lowest pinnae have a 
tendency to be less than those above them. The pinnae are 
short, very oblique in consequence of the upper leaflet close 
to the mid-stem being larger than the one below it ; this 
upper leaflet is also more distinct and distant than the rest, 
which run into one another : the teeth are deep, narrow, 
* Stansfield originally named this variety. 
