BRITISH FERNS 
XIII 
VICTORIA: (Moore) 
Mr. James Cosh. Stirlingshire. 1861. 
vi © iia, 
Syn. CRUCIATO-CRISTATUM ( Woll.) 
Ву Mr. Wollaston, and from the original plant. It is difficult to 
conceive how such an extreme deviation from the normal form 
could have been produced in all its strange perfection without 
gradual development, yet it would seem to have sprung directly by 
seed from some common Athyrium. 
Mr. Lowe has had his usual good fortune in his seedlings of 
Victorie, two of which have been figured and named by him 
Victore magnificum,. Victoria gracile. 
Mr. Edwin F. Fox thus defines the peculiarities of this variety. 
“А cruciate and crested Athyrium. In it we observe abortion of 
secondary rachis at the first pair of pinnules, then an abnormal 
development of this first pair—which is really a tertiary rachis— 
upwards and downwards and away from the primary rachis, so as 
to cross the similarly developed pinnules above and below them :— 
apices of primary and tertiary rachides crested.” 


