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centre. Some leaflets of each kind of fronds are coarsely 
serrated. This is not unfrequent in the neighbourhood. 
Axminster and Uplyme. 
8. Partially-serrated Hard Fern. Suhserratum, M. This 
is a more elegant though not so fine a plant as the pre- 
ceding. It is from six inches to a foot in height, from three 
quarters to an inch and a quarter wide. The fronds droop 
and the leaflets curve forward like a hook, and their under 
edge is notched with shallow, rounded lobes. M. Hawk- 
church. 
TILED HARD FERN. 
9. Heatly-adjusted Hard Fern. Concinnum, M. The 
lower part of the barren fronds for two or three inches is 
linear, and generally consists of rounded leaflets or lobes, 
toothed at their ends, while in the upper part the leaflets 
are longer, but unequal in length and sometimes blunt, 
sometimes acute, and sometimes much shorter and rounded 
like those at the base. The fertile fronds, too, in the lower 
part have a narrow, leafy, sinuous wing close to the mid- 
stem in the lower part, while in the upper part there are 
some longer lobes or leaflets, but even here the frond is not 
half an inch wide. M. Thorncombe. 
10. Much-divided Hard Fern. Multijidum. W. This 
has some fronds which divide once or more at the head but 
by no means with any uniformity. Axmouth, Chardstock, 
Hawkchurch, Wootton. 
11. Much' forked Hard Fern. Multifur catum, M. In 
this variety some fronds divide near the base : the heads 
of the branches of these and also of the fronds which are 
not so branched are forked many times so as to form a 
moderate-sized, flat tuft. There is no regularity in the 
