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Clowes, near Hawes-water, and by the Rev. G. Fin¬ 
der, near Elter-water. 
L. collina is another distinct and permanent variety, 
a remarkably elegant plant, growing erectly, the 
frond having sometimes an ovate outline attennately 
elongated at the apex, sometimes more elongated, ob¬ 
long-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, dark green, a foot 
to two feet high, smooth or sparingly glandular, bi- 
pinnate. The stipes varies from one-half to one-third 
of the frond, green above, tinged with dark purply- 
brown at the base, with entire lanceolate dark-brown 
scales, conspicuously darker in the centre. The scales 
narrow, with a long subnate point, at the base of the 
stipes, where they are more numerous, broader and 
shorter higher up ; the rachis almost without. The 
pinnae, especially the lower, distant and spreading, the 
lowest pair unequally deltoid, the next more elongate 
and less unequal, the rest narrower, parallel-sided, 
rounding slightly near the end to an acutish point, 
and acuminate. Pinnules convex, obtusely oblong- 
ovate, the basal narrowed to a broadish stalk-line at¬ 
tachment, the rest sessile and more or less decurrent; 
the larger pinnules deeply pinnatifid, with blunt 
oblong lobes, sparingly toothed, the teeth coarse 
acuminately aristate (or bearded), mostly at the apex. 
Sori mostly arranged in two lines along the pinnules, 
as in the smaller forms of the species, and covered by 
gland-fringed indusia. This variety was first brought 
into notice by the Rev. G. Pinder, found at Elter- 
water, in Langdale, and by Mr. Ecclestone at Torver, 
near Coniston. This last is rather larger and more 
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