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Newman states, that tliougti he feels a difficulty in giving 
anything approaching to a satisfactory specific description, 
still, infiuenced by a peculiarity which arrests the eye, he is 
inclined to consider it a distinct species. This variety has 
been found growing in Shute parish. 
3. Narrow-leaved Dark Scaled Fern. Angusti-pinnula, 
Moore. This chiefly difiers from the preceding in having 
narrower leaflets or pinnules. The pinnules, too, vary in 
length. A shorter, or stunted, or imperfect leaflet here or 
there appears on a pinna. In most cases the fronds of this 
character were intermixed on the same plant with those 
of the preceding variety. It seems, therefore, that ours is 
only an approach to what Moore calls Angusti-pinnula. 
This also grows in Shute parish. 
