FEEKY COMBES. 
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is the most divided Scolopendrium. The stem is 
branched, and each frond is numerously divided, 
the points of the divisions being crisped and 
fringed. We have several plants of this variety 
now in great beauty ; on one there is a frond, with 
the stem four times divided ; there are a hundred 
and twenty subdivisions, and these are again di- 
vided and serrated. We have a dried specimen of 
8. ramoswm^ which is nine inches across, the usual 
width of the ordinary form being about two. 
8. digit atum is divided much in the manner of 
ramosum, but the texture is more stiff and lea- 
thery, and the frond is flat, not crisped, nor with 
reduplications of leaf, as in ramosvm, 
8. multijidum has no divided stem^ but the points 
of the frond are more or less divided. 
8. marginatum has the edge of the frond double, 
forming as it were two frills, the under one con- 
siderably short of the edge of the frond. This 
under edge or frill is usually lobed, and bears seed 
both on its under and upper surface ; is in short 
cased in seed. This is its highest form ; in other 
cases the under membrane is reduced to a mere 
line or ridge. 
8. superlineatum has a ridge usually running 
round the whole upper surface of the frond. This 
form too has its variations, none of them common. 
