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Fig. 156. Z. dil. Stansfieldii (pinnae). 
STANSFIELDII (Fig. 156).—A small - growing form found in 
Cheshire by Mr. J. Гога; pinnules thick, leathery, and crispy. 

Fig. 157. 2. ЧИ. succisa (frond tip). 
Succisa (Fig. 157)--А markedly truncate form found by Mr. 
Е. J. Lowe in Derbyshire ; somewhat densely made ; every frond 
terminates abruptly with a few bunched and truncate pinne. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS (THE MALE FERN) 
(Plate ХУП) 
This is undoubtedly one of the most familiar Ferns with which 
we have to deal, since not only is it very common in many localities 
by the roadside and generally wherever Ferns abound, but it is 
one of those few species which are seen in thousands of suburban 
gardens, monopolizing space which would certainly be better 
devoted to varietal forms of this and other hardy species. It is a 
robust plant, and may practically be grown in any soil, so that 
cultural directions are hardly necessary, though we need hardly say 
that it and its varieties profit by specially favourable conditions. 
The fronds (Fig. 158) rise erectly in circles from a stout rootstock, 
shuttlecock fashion ; they are twice divided, and of a lightish green. 
Before, however, we pronounce it to be deciduous or evergreen, 
we must advert to the fact mentioned elsewhere that it has, and we 

