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Var. subeequale: pinnæ oblong, deeply and irregularly crenate, 
sometimes repand or sinuate, attached at or near the centre of the 
subequal base. [Plate LXXVI B.] 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, v. SUBXQUALE, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, under t. 39 ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 184. 
Var. cristatum: fronds symmetrically multifid-crisped at the 
apex, not ramosely-divided below. [Plate LXXVI bis, D.] 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, v, CRISTATUM, Wollaston MS. Moore, Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. Nature Printed, t. 39 H. ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, à ed. 183. 
Var. multifidum: fronds bi-tri-chotomously divided below, the 
apices of the branches multifid-crisped. [Plate LXXVI bis, B.] 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, v. MULTIFIDUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature 
Printed, t. 39 G. ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 183. 
Var. ramosum: fronds bi-tri-chotomously divided below, the 
branches flat normally taper-pointed. [Plate LXXVI bis, C.] 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES, v. RAMOSUM, Wollaston, MS. Moore, Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. Nature Printed, t. 39 F. ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 183. 
Caudex short, tufted, scaly, erect or decumbent. Scales lanceolate, 
brown, cellular, often with a dark central stripe. Fibres wiry, 
branching. 
Vernation circinate. 
Stipes short, smooth, chestnut-coloured or dark purple-brown, 
rounded behind, flat in front, with a raised line on the face at each 
angle; terminal and adherent to the rhizome. Rachis, also dark 
chestnut-brown throughout, keeled and rounded behind, flat in front, 
and there furnished with a narrow erect membranaceous concolorous 
wing-like border. 
Fronds two or three inches to twelve or fourteen inches long, 
linear, pinnate. Pinne thick, herbaceous, deep green, numerous, 
variable in shape, but mostly roundish-oblong, obtuse at the apex, 
and obliquely cuneate at the base, scarcely stalked, but attached to 

