194 y .THE BRITISH FERNS. 
to eight inches high, and three inches broad above the still wider 
base, sub-deltoid, the margin deeply inciso-lobate, the lobes crowded, 
elongate, tapered, or multifid-crisped at their apices. Sometimes 
they are taller and narrower, with elongate branch-like lobes right 
and left at the base, producing a hastate character, the margin 
inciso-lobate, with narrow elongate, tapering and projecting lobes, 
and the apex either slightly or very densely multifid-crisped ; the 
basal lobes are sometimes as much as four inches long, an inch wide, 
and expanded into a multifid cristate tuft nearly two inches across. 
The numerous projecting lobes, and the deeply incised subpinnatifid 
margin, combined with the multifid-crisped character, are the distin- 
guishing features of this very handsome variety. It was first found 
at Taunton, in Somersetshire, by Mr. J. Young; and a very similar 
form has been found in Yorkshire, by Mr. A. Clapham, of Scarborough. 
It has now become a common garden plant. [Plate XCII.—Folio 
ed. t. XLII, fig. 10]. 
146. laceratum dissectum (M.). This is a dwarf plant four to six. 
inches high, and is remarkable for its dissected fronds, which are 
sometimes flabellate, as broad as long, and divided down to the costa 
into three segments, which are again deeply split into broad cuneate 
inciso-dentate segments; or they are short oblong, with long basal 
lobes, thus somewhat hastate, and the upper part split deeply into 
segments. Sori are produced on the margins of the sinuses. It is 
a seedling raised by Mr. Elworthy. 
147. lacerátum elegans (M.). The fronds of this curious variety 
form an irregular mass six inches high and four inches across; they 
are divided in an irregular manner quite down to the costa into 
several divisions which are again deeply cleft-lobed, dilated and crispy 
at the apices. It has been raised by Mr. W. Willison, of Whitby. 
148. lacerato-ramosum (M.). A pigmy form, very singular if it 
remains permanent. The fronds sent to us are two inches high, two 
inches across, two or three branched in the stipites, the branches 
forked once or twice in a multifid manner, the ultimate divisions 
being blunt and dentate. The fronds are slightly marginate beneath. 
It is a seedling raised by Mr. Elworthy, and is exceedingly curious. 
Another similar pigmy ramose form, more flabellate in the branches, 
has been raised by Mr. Elworthy ; and a third, rather larger and 

