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ATHYRIUM FILIX-FGMINA, v. MULTIFIDUM, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 1 ed. 94; 
8 ed. 146, 153 ; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 33. 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-F@MINA, v. VIVIPARA, Steele, Handb. Field Bot. 215. 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FŒMINA, V. FURCATUM, of gardens. 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FŒMINA, v. CRISTATUM, Wollaston MS. ; 
Var. multiceps: monstrous ; fronds tall, broad lanceolate, bi- 
pinnate, their apices and those of the pinne symmetrically multifid- 
erisped ; tassels all consisting of numerous narrow laeerate spreading 
divisions; pinnules oblong, unequal, inciso-serrate. 
ATHYRIUM FiLIX-FGMINA, v. MULTIOEPS, Moore, Proceed. Hort. Soc. Lond. i. 70. 
Var. corymbiferum : monstrous ; fronds tall, broad. lanceolate, 
bipinnate, their apices and those of the pinne symmetrically 
multifid-crisped ; tassels consisting of broad spreading tapered 
segments whose rachides are furnished with normal pinnules ; pin- 
nules very broad, oblong, obtuse, pinnatifid; stipes and. rachis red. 
[Plate LXIII. | 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FGMINA, V. CORYMBIFERUM, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 
145, 155. 
Var. grandiceps: monstrous ; fronds suberect, bipinnate, divided 
at the apex into a broad multifid-crisped tasselled head; pinne 
pinnate, with short oblong pinnules and small terminal tassels ; 
unsymmetrical. 
Var. depauperatum : monstrous ; fronds suberect, bipinnate, 
furcately divided at the apex in numerous narrow lacerate segments, 
forming loosely tasselled tufts ; pmnee small irregularly depauperated, 
unsymmetrically lacerate-tasselled at their apices; sori small. 
[Plate LXIV A.] 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-F@MINA, V. DEPAUPERATUM, Wollaston MS. Moore, Ferns of 
Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 34 B; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 146, _ 
1'553 ; 
ATHYRIUM FILIX-F@MINA, v. RAMOSUM, Moore & Houlsion, Gard. Mag. Bot. iii. 
262. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 141. 
Var. acrocladon : monstrous, dwarf, irregularly ramose, often 
twice branched, the apices of the branches dilated and multifid-erisped 

