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as well as deeply divided and with open spaces between them. In 
cultivation, the plant though dwarfish, retains the same character, 
and no fructification has yet been observed. It was found in a cave 
at Petit Bot Bay, Guernsey, by Mrs. Dobree, of the Forest, 
Guernsey, and was sent to us by Mr. C. Jackson ; a similar form, 
from Cornwall, has also been sent to us by the late Mrs. Delves. 
[Plate LXXIV E.] 
11. ramo-trapesiforme (Claph.). This is a beautiful dwarf variety 
of multifid or abnormal character. The fronds communicated to us, 
are from two to three inches high, and branched either at the top 
of the stipites, or half-way up the rachides, or near to the apex, 
the pinn® being small and roundish-trapeziform, here and there 
lobate, but usually sharply toothed. One frond dividing at the 
top of the stipes, has one of its branches dichotomously forked, and 
the other twice dichotomous. Another divided only near the apex, 
separates into four lance-shaped spreading divisions. The most 
marked example has the rachis divided about two-thirds up; below 
the ramification are placed about eight small pinnze; the rachis then 
separates info five branches of an inch or more in length, forming à 
spreading apex to the frond, two and a half inches broad, each branch 
resembling the tip of an ordinary frond, and one of the branches 
being forked. The plants though small, are fertile. . This extremely 
interesting variety was found by Mr. A. Clapham, at Burniston, 
near Scarborough, Yorkshire. 

