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FEEITY COMBES. 
Var. cristata is also a variety of paleacea. It is 
most beautifully and regularly divided, and crisped 
both at the apex of the frond and the points of the 
pinnules. It has been found in the immediate 
neighbourhood of Ilfracombe, by Robert Mole, 
gardener to J. Downes, Esq., in whose choice col- 
lection of ferns it is now growing. 
Vars. ahbreviata 2in.d.pumila are two dwarf forms 
of Filix-mas, which may both be found in North 
Devon. We once obtained some curious and ex- 
treme forms at Hartland, referable to these dwarf 
varieties. 
We have a form of Filix-mas which does not 
seem to have been observed elsewhere, but which, 
as far as we can judge, approaches very nearly 
to one described and figured by Mr. Newman, 
from a frond in the collection of the Linnacan So- 
ciety, and called by Mr. Moore subintegra. The 
frond is six inches long, narrow, pinnate; apex 
very acute, prolonged, and curved downwards ; 
lower pinnae very short ; stipes half an inch long. 
Pinnae blunt, crowded, cleft about halfway 
down into short lobes ; lobes slightly serrated. 
The sori form two lines on each side of, and close 
to^ the midvein. More than two-thirds of the 
pinnae have sori, beginning from the bottom ; the 
uppermost pinnae without seed. 
