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3. Auricled Common Polypody. Auritum, At the base 
of the segments or lobes on the upper side near the mid-vein, 
is a little round lobe or auricle. In our plants we do not 
find it on every segment, but chiefly on the lower ones. 
This has been gathered in Dalwood parish near Sunnyland, 
and on a hedge-bank of a wood in Musbury parish, close 
to Bullmore in Axmouth parish. 
4. Sharp-pointed Common Polypody. Acutum, The lobes 
gradually taper to a point. At the base they are rather 
broader than in the common form. If a lobe is forked, each 
fork narrows gradually in the same way. Sometimes the 
lobes are serrulate, (i. e, very slightly serrated.) This has 
been gathered at Dalwood. 
5. Many-formed Common Polypody. Multiforme, A sin- 
gle plant of this variety has been discovered on the hedge- 
bank of a Common in ^N’orthleigh parish. This is divided 
into two branches or branched lobes at the summit, with an 
intermediate undivided lobe. All the lobes narrow gradually 
to an acute point. The branched lobes have a semicircular 
enlargement near their base, and seem to be cut, as it were, 
by a pair of scissors from the middle lobe. One of the lowest 
lobes of this Polypody is forked at the extremity. All the 
leaflets are obscurely serrated at distant intervals, and in 
some spots deeply notched. Other plants are sometimes 
branched near the base or middle of the frond. Sometimes, 
too, the mid-vein runs beyond the lobes. There is no 
regularity in the formation of this variety. 
Male PEiiiir. Lastrea Filix mns. 
See page 23. 
1. Deep-cut Male Pern. Incisa, Moore. Affinis^ Newman. 
The stalk is about a fourth the length of the frond, which is 
large, broad, and branched. The basal leaflet of the branches 
or pinnae have a narrow attachment and no stalk. Most of 
the other leaflets are decurrent and run into the stem. 
There is generally a slight auricle at the bottom of each 
leaflet. The leaflets have less width, are longer, more deeply 
cut, and more separated from each other than in the com- 
