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village of Hawkchurch, also at Berry lane in the same 
parish, and near Monkton Wylde, on the western side, a 
pleasant walk for Charmouth visitors. Another authority 
states, that they are to be found near the village of Chard- 
stock. 
Noetheen Haed Been. BlecJinum JBoreale, 
See page 55 . 
Borked Hard Bern. Burcatum, Here we have a fourth 
species which has a variety that forks the fronds. In this 
plant sometimes the stalk, and sometimes either the barren 
or the fertile fronds, or both, separate into two parts. Both 
at Bulmore farm in the parish of Axmouth, and at a boggy 
spot in Hawkchurch, plants have been found in which many 
fronds were thus divided. It is most probable that some 
of our Northern Hard Berns will be discovered in which all 
the fronds assume this form. In Chobham, Surrey, fifty 
such plants are to be found growing wild on an uncultivated 
common. Undoubtedly then, there is a variety of Borked 
Hard Berns. Certain plants, especially among the sea 
weeds (Algae,) have a tendency to be what is technically 
denominated dichotomous or forked at their ends. Any one 
who studies those beautiful natural productions, cannot fail 
to notice this peculiarity. 
An account has now been given of twenty-seven varieties 
or abnormal forms of various species of our Berns. In some 
of these the difierence is very slight ; in others so great 
that a person uninformed would think it impossible that 
they constitute the same species. Bour have been mentioned 
as chiefiy difiering in having their fronds forked either at 
their apex or their stalk. This is no great distinction, but 
sufficient to constitute a variety if it constantly happened 
on the same plant. In two that have been described, only 
a portion of the fronds are thus dichotomous, and therefore 
these are not strictly varieties. As, however, in other places 
it has been certified that this constantly happens in these 
two particular Berns, we have inserted them in our list, in 
