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Var. dissectum : fronds stout, dwarfish, broadly oval, bipinnate ; 
pinnee oblong suddenly acuminate; pinnules distant, decurrent, 
unequal and irregular, mostly ovate-oblong, blunt, cut into distant 
unequally toothed lobes separated by broad open sinuses ; sori 
near the costa, situate at the base of the sinuses. [Plate LX C; 
LX Dis. ] 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FGMINA, v. DISSECTUM, Wollaston MS. Moore, Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. Nature Printed, under t. 30; Id., Handb, Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 159. 
Var. rheeticum: fronds narrow-lanceolate erect, bipinnate ; 
pinne distant ; pinnules distinct, deeply pinnatifid, lanceolate acute, 
becoming linear from the incurvation of the lobes; lower anterior 
lobe longer and auriculiform ; sori short, numerous, near the midrib, 
becoming confluent. [Plate LVII A.] 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA, v. RHATICUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, t. 31 A. ; Id., Handb, Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 144. 
POLYPODIUM RHATICUM, Linneus, Sp. Plant. 1552; according to the Linnean 
Herbarium. 
ASPIDIUM RHATICUM, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 107. 
ASPIDIUM IRRIGUUM, Smith; according to specimens in his Herbarium (the 
figure in Eng. Bot. xxxi. t. 2199, rather resembles molle) ; Id., Eng. Fl. 
2 ed. iv. 283. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 104. 
ATHYRIUM RHXTICUM, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 67. Newman, Nat. Alm. 1844, 26. 
Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 136. 
ATHYRIUM CONVEXUM, Newman, Phytol. 1851, App. xiii; Id., Hist. Brit. 
Ferns, 3 ed. 212; 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA, v. CONVEXUM, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 245; 
3 ed. 219. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 425 (a). 
ATHYRIUM IRRIGUUM, Gray, Nat. Avr. Brit. Pl. ii. 10. 
ASPLENIUM FILIX-F@MINA, v. REJETIOUM, Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 60. 
Var. polydactylon: monstrous ; fronds lanceolate, bipinnate, 
several times forked at the apex; pinne flat, their apices sym- 
metrically bi-tri-furcate, with flat not crispy segments. [Plate 
LXIV B.] 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-F@MINA, v. POLYDACTYLON, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, under t. 30 ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 145, 153. 
Var. multifidum : monstrous ; fronds lanceolate, bipinnate, their 
apices and those of the pinnæ symmetrically multifid-crisped ; the 
tassels consisting of numerous narrow slightly divergent segments ; 
pinnules distinct, oblong, acute, convex. [Plate LXI.] 

