BRITISH FERNS 
IX 
Prumosum (Moore) 
James Horsfall, in the employ of Messrs. Stansfield, The Vale 
Nurseries, Todmorden. Yorkshire. 1860. 
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Besides the form here figured, varieties of plumosum have been 
found by R. Moule in N. Devon in 1865, and by Mr. Wills in 
Dorsetshire in 1869. There is also the Axminster form, found 
in 1860 by John Trott, a working farmer, a tenant of the Rev. Z. 
Edwards, and the Scotch form found in Lanarkshire in 1863 by 
Mr. M. Campbell, a nurseryman of Blantyre. The three last are 
more frondose than the others that have been mentioned, but much 
less so than plumosum divaricatum of Messrs. Stansfield (found in 
1872 in Lancashire, by Wm. Morris, a fern collector). lumosum 
elegans (Moore), a seedling of Mr. Parsons, from the Axminster 
variety, is perhaps the most beautiful of the true plumosums, 

