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THE REMOTE BUCKLER FERN. 
vatea and observed it, considers it to be a hybrid 
between L. Filix-mas and L. cristata var. sjpmulosa. 
The candex of L. remota is stoat and ascending, 
with a thick scaly crown ; its stipes, a foot long, is 
stoat, and clothed with nnmerons scales of varions 
size, some ovate-acnminate, three-qnarters of an inch 
long, others smaller, lanceolate or linear, terminating 
in a lengthened hair-like point, the margin slightly 
wavy or toothed,—along with these larger scales nn¬ 
merons others occurring, minute, ovate caudate, and 
peltately attached; the rachis, both primary and 
secondary, is furnished with scales which become 
smaller upwards. 
The fronds, from three to four feet high, are erect 
narrow oblong lanceolate, sub-tripinnate, and smooth; 
the lower pinnae three to four inches long, ovate- 
acuminate, all ascending, opposite or sub-opposite and 
distant below ; pinnules (basal ones of second pair of 
pinnae) an inch and a quarter long, shortly petiolate, 
pyramidal, or pyramidal ovate, acute, pinnatifid, almost 
pinnate; lobes oblong, about three-quarters of an inch 
long, obtuse, the lowest sub-lobate at the base, other¬ 
wise serrated, the serratures most numerous and pro¬ 
minent attbe apex, acute, mucronulate. The pinnules 
become gradually less pyramidal or ovate, and more 
oblong, at length linear oblong, as they recede from 
the main rachis ; below, except the lowest, they are 
also sessile, narrowly attached, but gradually more and 
more adnate upwards. The pinnules of the upper 
pinnae resemble the smaller pinnules of the lower. 
