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We have met with several large-fronded glandular forms of this 
species, which are barely if at all distinguishable from the present 
variety. They differ chiefly in having few or none of the broad 
pallid scales to be found on true glandulosa, and also in the less 
ascending position assumed by the pinne. The principal of these are : 
—1: asmaller frond, with paler scales, and less pyramidate pinnules, 
but glandular, gathered near Croydon, Surrey, by Mr. J. Hutcheson ; 
it is perhaps referrible to glandulosa itself, as we have scen the 
same much larger under cultivation. 2: a broader large-growing 
form from Ruthin, Denbighshire, gathered by Mr. T. Pritchard, and 
a similar one from Castle Malgwyn, Pembrokeshire, gathered by Mr. 
W. Hutchison, both coming very near glandulosa. 3: a glandular 
form, collected by Dr. Allchin, at Festiniog, which when found was 
small and like dwmetorum, but proves to be a large growing form 
closely resembling glandulosa. Other glandular forms of dilatata 
have been gathered at Hampstead Middlesex, at Barnes Surrey, at 
Chislehurst Kent, and at Windermere; these are somewhat different 
from the foregoing, and supply connecting links between glandulosa 
and dilatata. 

