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blunt; pumila, fronds small, “ perhaps only a young 
state of some of the larger forms Schofieldii, very 
small, branched and crisped; Smilhii, probably another 
variation of collina; tanacetifolia, fronds triangular 
and leafits finely divided ; and valida, fronds leathery- 
looking, leafits very deeply divided; acuminata, sharp- 
pointed ; adnata, entirely attached; alpina contracta ; 
alpina unca, hooked ; alia, tall; amcena, beautiful j 
angustipinnula, narrow-pinnuled; athyrioides, Athy- 
rium-like ; BlaJceii Blake’s ; compacta, close-growing; 
concinna, neat; crispa, curled ; cristata, crested ; oris- 
tata Dadsii, Dads’s crested; curvula, slightly curved; 
davallioides, Davallia-like; decurrent, running down; 
divergent, spreading; erecta, upright; erosa, jagged; 
eroso-interrupta, stopped and jagged; gracilis, slender; 
grandidcns, large-toothed; Hankeyance, Hankey’s; 
Hotoardii, Howard’s ; incequalis, unequal; interrupta 
minima, smallest stopped; irregularis, irregular; 
lacerata, tom; lata, broad; laxa, loose; lepida, 
scaly; minima, least; odontomanes ; Ordeanai; pygmrn, 
pygmy ; ramosa, branched; nana, dwarf-branched ; 
robusta, stout; rugosa, wrinkled; Scheerii, Scheere’s ; 
sparsifolia, few-leaved; Stansfieldii, Stansfield's ; 
stenophylla, narrow-leaved; stricta, straight; tenera, 
delicate; uncinella, small-hooked. 
Lastk^a filix-mas (p. 155).—The other variations 
in form which have been noted are— cristata, fronds 
and leaflets crisped at the top ; elongata, leaflets very 
long-pointed; deorso-lubata, merely incisa with a 
