THE LADY FERN. j 29 
pinne are short, broad, and acuminate; and the pinnules are rather 
distant, patent, decurrent at the posterior base, deeply pinnatifid, 
the lobes toothed with elongated or linear acute irregular teeth. 
The most marked form, which we consider typical of the variety, 
was sent from Conistone, by Miss S. Beever. It varies from this 
to a narrow lanceolate form, with short acutish not acuminate pinnæ, 
and having the basal pinnule only pinnatifid with long acute teeth, 
the rest of the pinnules being small, combined, scarcely divided at 
the sides, but conspicuously long-toothed at the apex. A very 
elegant form of this character has been found at Thirsk, by Mr. 
R. Foxton. Between these extremes various intermediate forms 
arefound. The variety may be regarded as a long-toothed, smallish, 
sometimes narrow, form of the molle group. We have seen specimens 
from—Kent: Tunbridge Wells, Mrs. Dewes. Surrey: Virginia 
Water, Dr. Allchin; Dorking, W. Pamplin. Devonshire: Chal- 
lacombe, Rev. F. Mules; Marwood, F. M.; Barnstaple, H. F. 
Dempster. Staffordshire: Trentham Park, G. B. Wollaston. Shrop- 
shire : Titterstone Clee Hill. Lancashire: Prescott, R. Morris ; Tod- 
morden, A. Stansfield. N. Lancashire: Conistone, Miss S. Beever. 
Yorkshire : Thirsk, R. Foxton. Denbighshire: Ruthin, T. Pritchard. 
Glamorganshire : Llandaff, Miss Lewis. Dumbartonshire : Tarbet, 
T.M. Argyleshire: Glen Croe, T. M.; Ardrishiag, Miss F. Griffith. 
Bute: Rothesay, T. M. Kincardineshire: Cove, A. Tait. Clare: 
Lisdoonvarna, R. Barrington. [Plate LIV B.] 
13. ovatum (Roth). This variety is the more readily identified, 
from being figured by Miiller. It grows from two and a half to 
three feet high, and has broad lanceolate rather lax fronds. The 
pinne are rather distant, linear-oblong, narrowed to an acuminate’ 
point. The pinnules are shortish, ovate-oblong, distinct, broad at 
the base with a narrow attachment, narrowed but obtuse at the 
point, flat, their anterior side rather largest, pinnatifid, but not 
very conspicuously divided, the lobes furnished with short bluntish 
teeth. The sori are placed in two lines near the midrib, and a 
tendency is shown to develope more than one on the basal lobes. 
This form, which approaches incisum, but is not so much divided, 
having broader less-divided looking pinnules, does not appear to be 
very frequent; we have specimens from- Surrey : Virginia Water, 

