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escape the notice of Eay, the great father of English botany, 
who designated it “ Bobart’s much-cleft Phyllitis tortured 
by every lobe being jagged.”* This variety is by no means 
uncommon. 
3. Lobed Common Hart’s-tongue. Lobatum, 
“ Labor omnia vincit 
Improbus.” — ^Virg. 
Earnest industry overcomes all difficulties. 
If we would thoroughly investigate nature’s productions, we 
must take some pains. Another search must now be made, 
and a little more trouble taken, and we shall meet with a 
Hart’s-tongue forking either at the head or lower down, 
sometimes even below the middle, into different lobes, which 
are again subdivided, and sometimes even for a third time, 
and then taper into a sharp point. A little before the 
frond branches, it widens itself, and previous to its thus 
widening, it has a linear form and a heart-shaped base, as is 
the general character of the species. The mid-rib also 
divides with each division and subdivision, and the fructi- 
fication lies on each side of the mid-rib wherever the mid-rib 
be. These monstrosities are not uncommon, and have been 
found at Musbury, Wey croft, and Secktor, in the parish of 
Axminster, and near the villages of Hawkchurch and Chard- 
stock. 
4. Einger Hart’s-tongue. Multijidum, Here is another 
variety differing from the last, though very much allied to it. 
This frond separates into two or three parts, in some cases 
near the head, in others not far from the stalk or lowest part. 
About an inch or more from its topmost part it begins to 
expand and becomes decidedly fan-shaped. This variety does 
occasionally, in small specimens, appear to be triangular. 
The summit is much subdivided and curls itself together, as 
in the leaves of endive. The mid-rib of this, too, runs into each 
lobe, and rather short clusters of spores accompany them. 
When we have a stunted plant, the whole frond looks like 
a fan suited for the pigmy race to cool themselves with on 
a hot summer day. Old Gerarde calls this “the Finger 
Hart’s-tongue, Phyllitis multifida.” In his description he 
states, “that the leaves thereof are cut or jagged like a 
* Phyllitis polyschides laciniis singulis oruciatum decussatis Bobartii. 
