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branching from the base upwards into an infinity of rounded lobes, 
at the edges of which small plants are formed ; it is on the lines of 
Wardii, Coolingii, and Kelwayii, but more divided. 
Fig. 278. S. v. crispum. 
CRISPUM (Fig. 278).— This name applies to a number of beau- 
tifully frilled, barren forms which vary somewhat in length of stalk, 
width and depth of frill, and other details, but are all handsome ; 
the best are those known as Bowdenii, Cowburnii, diversijrons, 
grande Walls, Grey, latum Jackson, majus Moses, Robinsonii, 
robustum, Roundstone, and Stablere ; all these have been found 
wild in different places, and must therefore, owing to their barren- 
ness, have been of quite independent origin, 

