BRITISH FERNS. 
15 
No. 
345 
346 
347 
348 
349 
350 
351 
352 
353 
354 
355 
356 
357 
358 
359 
360 
361 
362 
363 
364 
365 
366 
367 
368 
369 
370 
371 
372 
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374 — 
375 — 
Polystichum Schott. 
angulare Kitsonise M . — frond 1| to 2 feet long, irregularly branched and 
tufted at the apex ; pinnules somewhat variable in outline, and 
remarkable for the number of bristle-like teeth along their margin. 
A very interesting and beautiful variety 5s. to 10 
— lastreoides 31 . . . . 10 
— laxum 31. . . 5 
— lineare M. . . . . 5s. to 21 
— microphyllum 31. 5 
— multifidum W. 5s. to 10 
— obtusum 31 
— ornatum 31 21 
— oxyphyllum 31. . . . . * 
— plicatum W. 
— plumosum 31 . — this queenly fern is to the varieties of P. angulare 
what A. F. f. plumosum is to the varieties of the Lady-fern. It is 
unquestionably one of the very handsomest forms, and though long 
known is still rare. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 2£ feet long and 
upwards, and 5 to 7 inches wide or a little more; pinnules ample, of 
remarkably thin texture, light green in colour aud deeply incised. 
There is no more desirable fern than this in cultivation 10s. 6d. to 63 
— polydactylum 31 . — dark green fronds narrow, lanceolate, irregularly 
fingered, (often only once branched) at the apex; pinnae short and 
mostly forked or branched at the ends, pinnules small, sometimes 
wanting. Well-grown plants of this fern are very elegant. It is 
not common in collections 3s. 6d. to 10 
— praemorsum Allchin (abruptum) 3s. 6d. to 5 
— proliferum 31 . — this much admired and truly elegant form is remark- 
able for the fineness of its divisional parts and the multitude of 
proliferous bulbils produced on the lower part of each frond. 
It is of vigorous growth and most graceful habit, and being at once 
one of the handsomest of ferns and the easiest to manage, is always 
greatly in demand Is. to 10 
Crawfordianum Phillips (Craufordianum) 3s. 6d. to 10 
Footii 31 . — fronds 2 to 2£ feet long, somewhat triangularly lance- 
shaped, drooping, tripinnatifid above and tripinnate below, the pinnae 
enlarging towards the base; pinnules acutely serrated, rather dis- 
tant, racbis exceedingly paleaceous. Not so proliferous as No. 359. 
A very beautiful form 3s. 6d. to 21 
Wollastoni 31 . — sometimes confounded with the commoner pro- 
liferum, but widely distinct from it, being of much larger size, laxerin 
habit and finer in its divisional parts. A truly splendid fern 2s. 6d. to 21 
— pterophorum 31 . — fronds l£ to 2 feet long, broadly lanceolate, pinnules 
large, somewhat crowded. An extremely beautiful variety 5s. to 10 
— pulchellum W. 63 
— quadratum 31. 5 
— reflexum W. 5 
— refractum W. (crispum) 5s. to 10 
— retrusum W. 10 
— rotundatum 31. 5s. to 21 
— serratum 31. 7 
— Stansfieldii 31 10 
— stenophyllum 31 7 
— stipatum W . — the general appearance of this fine variety would lead 
one to pronounce it a form ofP. aculeatum ; fronds 1 to 2 feet, lan- 
ceolate, pinnules broad and somewhat overlapping, giving the frond 
a crispy character. A very desirable novelty . . . . 10s. 6d. to 21 
— stipitatum Stansf. 21s. to 42 
— subplumosum W . — a most beautiful large-growing variety, hardly 
inferior to the splendid plumosum 3s. 6d. to 5 
subtripinnatum 31. 
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