FERN SPORTS. 
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Filix-fcemina Frizellm, found in 
Ireland some years ago by Miss 
Frizell. The few linear-oblong 
acute pinnae which occur on the 
lower pinnae alone serve for the 
specific identification of the plant, 
which is of a very distinct and orna¬ 
mental character. 
Fteris arguta Stansfieldii (M ).— 
Fronds symmetrically depauperated, 
2 feet high, loosely bipinnate, with 
a pedate base, triangular, the pinnae 
narrow and distinct; pinnules mostly 
reduced to short subrotund lobes 
slightly toothed at the tip, or with a 
short projected toothed apex, here 
and there developed into lobes, of 
which a few are nearly or quite 
normal; apices variously divided 
into long narrow forked divisions, 
which are very unequally developed, 
something in the way of Aihyrium 
Filix-fcemina furcellatum. There are 
two slightly differing forms of this, 
the one more furcate than the other, 
but probably, when reproduced from 
spores, they will become merged in 
one. 
Another illustration of the sportive 
character of Ferns—and this also an 
island plant recently imported from 
the South Seas by several of our 
principal nurserymen, and which has 
been exhibited and certificated at 
some of the recent meetings of the 
Society—is found in the beauti¬ 
fully-crested Microlepia hirta cris- 
tata ( M ). This novelty has the 
fronds of a rich deep green colour, 
broadly ovate, tripinnate, 2—4 feet 
long, gracefully pendent; the pinnae 
Gr 
ROTUND ATA. 
