THE MALE FERN. 
NEPHRODIUM PATENTISSIMUM, Strachey de Winterbottom, Hb. Himal. 5. 
NEPHRODIUM FILIX-MAS, v. PALEACEUM, Hooker, Fil. Exot. t. 98. 
DICHASIUM PATENTISSIMUM, A. Braun, Flora, 1841, 710. Fee, Gen. Fil. 308, 
t. 23 B, fig. 2 (stipes). 
DICHASIUM PARALLELOGRAMMUM, A. Braun, Flora, 1841, 710. Fée, Gen. Fil. 
303, t. 23 B, fig. 1. 
DRYOPTERIS BORRERI, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 189. 
DRYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS, v. BORRERI, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 189. 
Var. Pinderi: fronds narrow elongate lanceolate, much atten- 
uated at both the base and apex, subbipinnate ; pinnules, scales of 
stipes, and sori as in paleacea, the basal scales elongate subulate. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, v. PINDERI, Moore, Pop. Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 315; Id., 
Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 108. 
Var. abbreviata: fronds dwarfish, glandular, subbipinnate, the 
pinne concave, scarcely pinnate; pinnules, large (comparatively), 
broad, obtuse, mostly decurrent, unequally crenate or crenate-lobate, 
the lobes with blunt teeth; sori usually uniserial on each side the 
midrib; indusium fringed with glands; scales somewhat fim briated. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, y. ABBREVIATA, Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 3 ed. 410; 4 ed. 
491. Johnson, Sowerby Ferns of Gt. Brit. 20. Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 
Nature Printed, under t. 14; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 103. 
LASTREA ABBREVIATA, Moore MS. (Nat. Pr. Ferns). 
POLYSTICHUM ABBREVIATUM, De Candolle, Fl. Frang. 3 ed. ii. 560. 
ASPIDIUM ABBREVIATUM, Poiret, Encyc. Bot. Supp. iv. 516. 
LOPHODIUM ABBREVIATUM, Newman, Phytol. 1851, App. xxi. 
DRYOPTERIS ABBREVIATA, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 192. 
DRYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS, v. ABBREVIATA, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 192. 
Var. pumila: fronds dwarf, glandular, subbipinnate; pinne 
deflexed, concave ; pinnules small, convex, mostly confluent, bluntly 
crenate-serrate ; sori usually confined to the Jowest anterior venule 
of the lowest pinnules, and thus arranged in a single series on each 
side the midrib of the pinne; indusium somewhat inflected at 
the margin, and beaded with short-stalked glands ; scales slightly 
fimbriated. [Plate XXXV.] 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, v. PUMILA, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 17 B; 
Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 104. 
LASTREA PUMILA, Moore MS. (Nat. Pr. Ferns). 
LASTREA ABBREVIATA, Wollaston, Phytol, n. s., i. 172. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, v. ABBREVIATA, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 108. 
ASPIDIUM PUMILUM, Lowe, Nat. Hist. Ferns, vi. t. 15. 
AsPIDIUM FILIX-MAS, v. RECURVUM, Francis, Anal. Brit. Ferns, 38. 
ASPIDIUM FILIX-MAS, v. PUMILUM, of gardens. 
Var. Bolandise: fronds ovate-lanceolate, minutely glandular, 
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