THE BRITISH FERNS. 
THE LADY FERN. 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FŒMINA. 

A. fronds lanceolate, herbaceous, subbipinnate, or bi-tri-pinnate ; 
pinnules oblong ovate or lanceolate, sessile and distinct, or more or 
less decurrent and united, toothed, or inciso-pinnatifid with the lobes 
toothed ; the teeth acute, not spinulose. 
— (type) : fronds lanceolate, lax or drooping ; pinne approximate 
or distinct ; the lower pair smaller deflexed ; pinnules flat, oblong 
connected by a winged rachis and toothed, or linear-lanceolate dis- 
tinct and pinnatifid, the lobes more or less toothed. [Plate LII A.] 








ATHYRIUM FILIX-FaMINA, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 65. Presl, Tent. Plerid. 98, t. 3, 
fig. 5. Fee, Gen. Fil. 186. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 425 (B). 
Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 43, V. 25. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 
208. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 8 ed. 144; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, tt. 30, 32. 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA, v. MOLLE, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 242; 
3 ed. 215. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 425 (y). Moore, Handb. Brit. 
Ferns, 1 ed. 94 ; 2 ed. 139. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 44. 
ATHYRIUM OVATUM, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 64 (Müll. Fl. Fridr. t. 2, f. 3)—not of 
Newman. a 
ATHYRIUM MOLLE, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 61. Newman, Nat. Alm. 1844, 26 ; Id., 
Phytol. 1851, App. xii. ; Id., Hist. Brit. Ferns, 8 ed. 215 (excl. the Aberdeen 
habitat). 
ATHYRIUM TRIFIDUM, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 63. 
ATHYRIUM LAXUM, Schumacher, Enum. Plant. Sœlland. ii. 16. 
ATHYRIUM DEPAUPERATUM, Schumacher, Enum. Plant. Sœlland. ii. 17. 
ATHYRIUM LETUM, Gray, Not. Arr. Brit. Plants, ii. 10. 
ATHYRIUM ACROSTICHOIDEUM, Bory: Merat, Fl. Par. 4 ed. 373 ; according to 
Mettenius. 
POLYPODIUM FILIX-FŒMINA, Linneus, Sp. Plant.. 1551. Bolton, Filices Brit. 
46, t. 25 (bad). Hofmann, Deutschl. Fl. ii. 6. Poiret, Enc. Botanique, 
v. 548. Hudson, Fl. Ang. 458. 
PoLypopiuM FILIX-FŒMINA, œ. ORENATA, Weis, Pl. Crypt. 313 ; according to 
Roth. 
POLYPODIUM FILIX-FŒMINA, B. DENTATA, Weis, Pl. Crypt. 315. 
PoLYPODIUM DENTATUM, Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. ii. 7. 
PoLYPODIUM OBLONGO-DENTATUM, Hoffmann, Rem. and Ust. Mag. Bot. 1790, 
pt. 9, 10, fig. 13 a. 
POLYPODIUM ovATO-ORENATUM, Hoffmann, : Rem. and Ust. Mag. Bot. 1790, 
pt. 9, 10. i 
POLYPODIUM TRIFIDUM, Hoffmann, Rem. and Ust. Mag. Bot. 1790, pt. 9, 10; 
Id., Deutschl. Fl. ii. 7. 
PoLYPODIUM BIFIDUM, Hoffmann, Rem. and Ust. Mag. Bot. 1790, pt. 9, 10. 
PoLYPODIUM MOLLE, Schreber, Spicileg. Fl. Lips. 70. Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. 
ii. 7. Poiret, Enc. Bot. v. 536. 























