127 
thereof are cut or jagged like a man’s hand, or the palm of 
a brow antler of a deare, * bearing neither stalke, floure, t 
nor seed.” He is incorrect in stating that there is no 
fructification, as our plants are fruit-hearing, but the clusters 
are not so large as in the ordinary form. This is an elegant 
variety, and in a damp, shady situation thrives, anti is 
improved by cultivation. Hawkchurch. Tarcombe. • 
18. Crested Hartstongue. Chnstatum. C. This is a 
handsome Fern. The fronds are from four inches to a foot 
high, and an inch and a half wide : the base is heart-shaped, 
and the head has a wide spreading tuft or crest of curly 
segments, an inch and a half to two inches in expansion : 
eight or ten of these tufts form the head of the fronds, 
which give the variety a most elegant appearance. Chard : 
near Wadeford. Hawkchurch. Lyme. Monkton Wylde. 
Seaton. 
19. Branched Crested Hartstongue. 'Ramoso-cristatum, 
C. The stalks are branched and the fronds have a narrow 
linear leafy appendage to the mid-rib until they expand and 
form a much-cleft crested and curly head with here and 
there flat and projecting lobes. This is a dwarf variety. 
M. Hawkchurch. Monkton Wylde. 
20. Crested Crosswise Hartstongue. Cristato-trans- 
versum, M. This has all its frond regular with the 
exception that it forks about an inch from the apex and has 
two crested heads so twisted that they cross each other. 
The frond is about a foot high. M. Hawkchurch. 
21. Branched Hartstongue. Bamosum. Willd. In this 
variety the stalk starting singly from the stock (caudex) 
afterwards branches, and on each branch a separate frond 
arises, as appears in the woodcut. These fronds often 
branch below and again near the apex into a dense, much- 
cleft, curly tuft. The fronds are short, not more than six 
inches high. Hawkchurch and Musbury. 
22. Greater Branched Hartstongue. Bamosum-majus. 
C. This is a fine, vigorous variety, a foot and a half in 
height : the fronds are not branched, but the stalk only, 
which is very thick and divides either below or near the 
frond or both. The fronds are of the ordinary form and 
often cross each other. M. Axminster. 
* Deer. t Flower. 
