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wall, a few miles from Truro, and was communicated by Messrs. Veitch 
and Son, of Exeter and Chelsea. 
60. thyssanotum (M.). Another very handsome tasselled form of 
vigorous habit, two feet or more in height, lanceolate, the apices of 
the fronds and of the pinnæ symmetrically developed into spreading 
crispy tasselled tufts. The pinnæ are oblong, narrowed but slightly 
below the tassel; the pinnules are oblong, flat, often dilated at the 
apices, pinnatifid with the lobes toothed. It may be regarded as a 
tasselled variety, of that form of the species represented by trifidum, 
and is a handsome plant, superior to multifidum on account of the 
fronds forming a flat surface and not becoming curled. It was 
found in Guernsey, by Mr. James of Vauvert. [Plate LXII.] 
61. corymbiferum (M.). A beautiful robust tasselled variety, cer- 
tainly entitled to rank amongst the very handsomest of the forms yet 
known, and distinguishable from the other tasselled forms by the 
great breadth of its pinnules, by the larger size of its terminal tufts 
when properly grown, and by its red stipes and rachis. The medium 
sized fronds, from pot plants, are about a foot and a half long and 
six or eight inches broad, symmetrically tasselled throughout the 
margin. The pinne are approximate, oblong, not much tapered 
towards the tassel which is large and broad, and consists of dicho- 
tomous divisions of the rachis along which the ordinary pinnules 
are continued, thus giving breadth and importance to the tuft; the 
pinnules are broad oblong blunt, more or less connected as in the 
molle type, and they are set nearly close on the rachides, so that the 
whole frond has an appearance of breadth, and of being filled out and 
completed, which greatly adds to its beauty. The terminal tuft is large 
and spreading, and bears pinnules throughout. When freely grown, 
as in some specimens forwarded from Guernsey, the fronds are two to 
three feet long, and the corymbose apex is much more developed ; 
the rachis first of all dividing into three branches about six or eight 
inches below the apex, and these branches becoming bipinnate, and 
tufted at the ends similar to the smaller-sized fronds already described. 
When in this state it is remarkably fine. It was found in Guernsey, 
by Mr. James of Vauvert. A similar form has since been raised by 
Mr. Elworthy from spores of polydactylon. [Plate LXIII.] - 
62. grandiceps (M.). A very distinct and handsome tasselled 

