BRITISH FERNS 
LXXIX 
MULTILOBUM Gray (Woll.) 
Mr. Robert Gray. 5. Devon. 1865. 
2 tt. (O Hl, 
Мау be taken as а typical specimen of a thoroughly good multi- 
1оре of the more robust kind, there аге not many so thoroughly 
even in development. 
The multilobes may be said to hold an intermediate place 
between the forms of decompositum on one side, and the acuti- 
lobes and divisilobes оп the other ;—resembling the former in the 
more or less rounded shape of the divisions of the pinnules, and 
partaking to a certain extent of the finer and neater look of the 
latter; in fact, they may be said to have a dash of that “ gentle 
blood" which so distinguishes the latter varieties, and which 
decomposttum has not. 
Multilobes vary much, in some cases they are little more than 
very neatly cut decompositums, and when varying іп the other 
direction and much developed, they are often only distinguishable 
from divisilobes by the greater roundness in the divisions of the 
pinnules and by the more equal development of the upper and 
lower pinnae, whereas in divisilobes one of the most marked 
peculiarities is the excessive development of the posterior pinnules. 

