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and acute. Pinnae also are occasionally missing and a spine 
supplies its place. Some fronds have a little horn at their 
apex. M. Thorncombe : Holditch. 
Haetstonoue. Scolopendrium vulgare. 
See page 67 . 
The different varieties may be divided into six groups — 
1. Those curled or plaited. 2. Those lobed or notched 
on the edge of the sides of the frond. 3. Those having the 
head or apex lobed, crested, or otherwise changed, or having 
the stalk branched. 4. Those affected on the upper 
surface of the frond. 5. Those affected on the under 
surface. 6. Those having different fronds on the same 
root-stock. 
CUELED VaEIETIES. 
1. Curled Hartstongue Crispum, If we look carefully 
over the hedge-banks, we shall sometimes see this Pern very 
much curled or waved and plaited like the old fashioned 
frill of a shirt. Moore says “ the frond is always barren.” 
It attains the full size of a foot or more in length and about 
two inches broad, the margin being parallel or nearly so. 
Elegant as this variety is, dried specimens do not appear to 
advantage, as the necessary pressure destroys all its beautiful 
curls. 
2. Broad Curled Hartstongue. Crispum-latum, M. 
This is soft to the touch, has a glaucous green colour, is 
elegantly curled, almost eight inches long, three or four 
broad, and broadest in the middle ; it is heart-shaped at the 
base with very large ears or auricles, and has on the edge 
of the frond broad and roundish notches, which have a 
slight tendency to be pointed in the middle. M. 
Hawkchurch. 
