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Var. proliferum : fronds ovate-lanceolate, lax, bi-tri-pinnate ; 
pinnules narrow, attenuated, acute, distinctly stalked, usually deeply- 
lobed, the lobes distant, attenuated; rachis proliferous throughout. 
[Plate XXTIT.=subvar. Wollastoni.] 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, v. PROLIFERUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, t. 13 C (subvar. WorrASTONI); Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 86. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, v. ANGUSTATUM, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 91. 
Var. cristatum: fronds lanceolate, their apices and those of the 
pinne multifid-crisped. [Plate XXVII A.] 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, v. CRISTATUM, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 87. 
Var. polydactylum : fronds narrow lanceolate; their apices and 
those of the pinn® ramose or multifid, plane. [Plate XXVII B.] 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, v. POLYDAOTYLUM, Moore, Sims Cat. Ferns, 1859. 
Var. Kitsoniz : fronds branched above, the branches corymbosely 
tufted ; pinne dilated-crisped at their apices; pinnules crowded, 
setaceo-serrate, more or less confluent and varied in form on the 
branches. [Plate XXVIII.] 
Caudex thick, tufted, scaly, erect or decumbent, formed of the 
bases of the older fronds consolidated with a woody axis, the bases 
of the fronds being adherent, i. e., not articulated or separating 
spontaneously ; this caudex sometimes becomes lengthened, acquir- 
ing a trunk-like character in very luxuriant old plants. Scales 
similar to those borne on the stipes. Fibres numerous, strong, 
coarse, branched, dark-coloured, tomentose. > 
.. Fernation circinate, the main rachis becoming recurved when 
the frond is about half developed, the pinn; convolute towards the 
main rachis. 
Stipes rather lengthened, usually from four to six inches long, some- 
times considerably longer, densely scaly, with long lanceolate-acu- 
minate and linear-lanceolate scales of a reddish-tawny colour 
and dry membranous texture; these again intermixed with numerous 
others, both smaller hair-like ones and adpressed ciliated scurf-like 

