BRITISH FERNS 
LXX 
CONGESTUM (Woll.) 
Rev. C. Padley. South Devon. 1865. 
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Syn. CONFERTUM (Padley). 
Among the most beautiful of the varieties of angulare, but, 
from the closeness which gives it its chief beauty, difficult to 
represent in a nature print; the varieties of congestum are all 
dark green. 
Mr. Padley, who has been especially fortunate with this variety, 
writes, “ I found two ас Littleham, N. Devon, one in S. Devon, 
and half a dozen others scattered through Devonshire, all alike,” 
and lays some stress on the fact that without exception all the 
plants found by himself and that found by Miss Thompson were 
growing in damp places. 
Mr. Jackson, Mr. Wollaston, Мг. Wills, Mr. Moly, and Miss 
Thompson are the only other recorded discoverers of this variety ; 
from a plant, however, in the late Dr. Lyell’s collection (the history 
of which is obscure) a remarkable multifid form has been raised by 
Mr. Sang, of Kirkcaldy, which is in the possession of Mr. E. J. 
Lowe, now of Shirenewton Hall, Monmouthshire. 


