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extent of them for yourselves ; many other species, doubtless, will be found to par¬ 
take of these characters when the subject is more attended to. I also show you 
specimens of many of them, mostly gathered by myself, and hope, at a future 
meeting, to state a few more facts connected with the subject, and to bring before 
you other classes which are as well defined as this. 
LIST OF SPECIES OF BRITISH FERNS. 
Variety Ramosum (Cristatum) ; and Subvariety Multifidum. 
[Explanation of Marks—Species in brackets, not recorded as Irish, thus 
[(Woodsia)]. Marked thus, (?) I am in doubt concerning. X 1 shows rachis 
divided ; X 2, stipe, do. do.; Z, pinnse, or pinnules. J 
Adiantum Capillus Veneris (Linnmus). 
X 2, cultivated plant from Ireland ; G-. B. Wollaston, Esq. 
Eupteris aquilina (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei) ; Phyt., 1858, p. 1,036; 
X 1 and 2, scarce ; Z, rare (a diminutive specimen from top of Three-rock 
Mountain, County Dublin; has rachis divided to within half an inch of 
ground). Not very uncommon about Ballinteer, in this county. 
England: G. B. Wollaston, Esq., Epping Forest (Kin). 
Lomaria spicant (Desv.); subvar. multifidum (Mei); Phyt., 1853, pp. 892 and 
1,036. X 1 and 2, rather rare ; Z, rare. Clare and Dublin; very fine at foot 
of Great Sugarloaf, County Wicklow; generally grows in moist situations. 
Kerry : W. Andrews, Esq. 
England. Figured Deakin, FI. Br., p. 52. Very fine specimens of Z forwarded 
me by G. B. Wollaston, Esq., as bifidum. Jersey, M. Piquet. Phyt., 1853, 
p. 1,135. 
Var. Ramosum (Mei) ;* Phyt., 1853, pp. 892 and 1,036; proc. Dublin Nat. 
Hist. Soc., 1853. Lough Breagh, County Wicklow. 
Notolepeum Ceterach (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum ; Phyt., 1853, p. 1,036. X 2, 
rare. Specimen, from Lucan, co. Dublin, given me by W. II. Luscombe, Esq. 
England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 
Phyllitis Sc.olopendrium (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Ray). X 1, very common; 
X 2, rare; Z, rare. The commonest of the group in Ireland (Mack. Flor. 
Hib., 343) ; very fine near Chapelizod, County Dublin. 
England, common—vide Newman’s British Ferns, &c. Synonyms. Lobatum ; 
ramosum. Jersey, M. Piquet, ut antea. 
Var. Ramosum (Mei) ; England (Newm. Br. Ferns, 289, &c.). I am not aware 
of the extreme form having been found in Ireland. Undulatum, by some 
called crispum, has; fine specimens of it from Colin Glen, Belfast, were shown to 
me by A. Crawford, Esq., and form Birenniforme (W.) given me by W. H. 
Luscombe, Esq., from Dublin. 
Syn. Ramosum (Moore, 179) ; multifidum (ib.) ; crispum, No. 176; dsedalea 
(Koch) ; Crista Galli (Wol.) ; Digitatumf (Wol.) ; Undulatum? Endivifolium 
Young (vide remarks), furcatum (Wol), Birenniforme (Wol). 
Amesium Ruta muraria (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei); Phyt. ut antea. 
X 2, very rare. Dublin and Louth. A specimen also given me by W. H. 
Luscombe, Esq. 
England: G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 
Var. Ramosum (Mei) (?); England. Forwarded me by their discoverer, G. B. 
Wollaston, Esq., by whom they were named cristatum. J 
Asplenium viride (Lightf.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei). X 2, rare. 
England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 
Syn. ramosum (Linn.) (?). 
* Barren fronds, multifidly dichotomous; segments of apex confluent at their edges, and curled; 
veins terminating in apices in lash of branches. Fertile fronds, hermaphrodite, branched; their 
apices similar to barren fronds, 1854. 
t Crista galli (Wol.), apex of frond entire, curled on itself, and resembling a cockscomb, Digi- 
tatum (Wol.); secondary midribs arising from main midrib: divisions multifidly crisped and con- 
tinous with main portions. Birenniforme (Wol.), apex of frond kidney-shaped; midrib running 
along inner edge of segments. 
J Cristatum (Wol ), primary divisions of frond, split and curled at their apices. 
