BRITISH FERNS 
20. FRIZELLIA (Moore) 
Mrs. Charles Frizell, Castle Kevin, Co. Wicklow. 
Co. Wicklow. 1857. 
145, бу Т, 
Syn. LUNULATUM ( Woll.) 
21. FRIZELLIE RAMOSUM (Zoe) 
Mr. E. J. Lowe. (Raised) 1874. 
fi 15 
Syn. RAMO-LUNULATUM ( ИИ.) 
22. FRIZELLIZE MULTIFIDUM. 
Syn. LUNULATO-MULTIFIDUM. 
23. A similar form has been raised by Glave, of Scarborough. 
Mr. Phineas Riall, of Old Conna Hill, Bray, writing on the same 
subject, says :—‘‘ Mr. Bain, of the College Botanic Gardens, raised 
quantities from spores, and about five years after he got it gave 
me a young plant which crested beautifully, the original plant 
being quite plain. I had many seedlings—some wonderfully 
сгез ед.” 
The following definition of the peculiarities of Ath. f. f. Frisellie 
is from Mr. Edwin Fox :—‘‘In Zyise//ie, the secondary rachis 
aborts at 1st, 2nd, or 3rd pair of pinnules, generally at 2nd, but 
then the tertiary rachis on which they are situated aborts also, 
and to that degree that the pinnules are crammed, or superimposed, 
as it were, on the top of one another, the posterior imbricating 
and half covering the anterior. The lamina of the pinnules partakes 
of the abortion and becomes, in some specimens of Frizellice, so 
congested as to appear warty or nodose,—the edges of the 
laminae are dentate and revolute. The anterior pinnule projects 
backwards in a plane posterior to the rachis, the posterior pinnule 

