]96 THE BRITISH FERNS. 
Dumbartonshire; and we have other lobate forms from Penryn, 
Cornwall; Glen Lochy, Perthshire; Ardrishiag, Argyleshire; and 
from Jersey and Guernsey. [Plate XXXIII C.] 
ll. paleaceo-crispa (M.). A handsome subvariety of the paleacea 
type. The fronds of this form are broad or ovate, densely-leafy, 
the pinnæ and pinnules, the latter especially, being remarkably close 
set. The chief peculiarity, however, resides in the undulation of 
the pinnules, these being twisted and curled so as to give quite a 
crispy appearance to the surface of the frond; they are. rather 
elongate-oblong in outline, the basal ones lobate, and the tips of all of 
them sharply serrated. Though a plant of full size, even the lowest 
pinnules are not quite distinet, a narrow wing to the rachis connecting 
the rest with each other; in the case of this lowest pinnule, the sinus 
is continued so as to narrow the attachment, but the upper pinnules 
are attached nearly or quite by their whole width. It was found 
by Mr. R. Hogg, at Bogan Green, Coldingham, Berwickshire. 
19. Pinderi (M.). This is a remarkable and elegant form, peculiar 
from its long narrow fronds, which are very much attenuated both 
towards the base and apex, thus becoming elongate-lance-shaped in 
outline. The fronds are nearly or quite a yard in height, and less 
than six inches wide in the broadest part, tapering upwards into a 
long slender point, and narrowed below in a similar way. The 
stipes is short. - This belongs to the golden-scaled type, the pinnules 
seales and sori being similar to those of that variety, the chief 
difference consisting in the remarkable outline of the frond. The 
lowermost scales are, however, very long and subulate. It was 
found near Elter Water in the Lake district, in 1855, by the Rev. 
G. Pinder. 
18. abbreviata (Bab.). This dwarf-growing form, seldom exceeding 
a foot in height, is one of the permanently smaller forms of the 
species, and is probably specifically distinct; though pumila (14) 
has many characters in common with it, and the two are perhaps 
forms of one subalpine species. The present is however a larger 
plant than pumila, with considerably larger, broader, and therefore 
coarser-looking pinnules, which although to some extent recurved, 
are yet by no means so fully or so constantly so, as in pumila. - The 
scales of the stipes are somewhat fimbriated or jagged at the margin. 

