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half nearly or quite entire, the rest furnished with short blunt 
entire or obscurely fine-toothed segments; fertile ones similar in 
form, spieate (4 inch wide and undivided) above, sparingly lobed 
below, the lobes sometimes all much abbreviated. 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. LANCIFOLIUM, Wollaston MS. Moore, Ferns of Gt. 
Britain, Nature Printed, under t. 43 C; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 221. 
Var. subserratum: sterile and fertile fronds narrowish elongate; 
segments faleately curved forwards, the anterior margin entire, the 
posterior erenately serrate. 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. SUBSERRATUM, Moore, in litt. 
Var. imbricatum: sterile fronds short lanceolate, with densely 
crowded overlapping oblong acutish segments; fertile ones of the 
same size and form, pinnate, their stipites and rachides broad deeply 
furrowed in front, the pinne crowded, acute. 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. IMBRICATUM, Moore, in litt. 1858. 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. CRASSICAULE, McNab, in Hort. Edin. 
Var. strictum: sterile fronds elongate lanceolate, sometimes 
irregular with abbreviated segments; segments distant dilated at 
the base, erenately toothed ; fertile fronds of the same form or some- 
times narrower, with distant linear obtuse obscurely crenated 
segments. [Plate XCV B.] 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. STRICTUM, Francis, Amal. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 54; b ed. 
58. Moore, Ferns of Gt. Britain, Nature Printed, under t. 43 C ; Id., 
Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 222. 
Var. ramosum: fronds divided, the apices of the divisions 
densely multifid-crisped, forming a close convex terminal tuft of 
segments. [Plate XCVI A.] 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. RAMOSUM, Kinahan, in litt.; Id., Phytol. iv. 892. 
Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 186, 188; 8 ed. 218; Jd., Ferns of Gt. 
Britain, Nature Printed, under t. 43 C. 
Var. multifurcatum : fronds often divided below, the apices of the 
divisions repeatedly forked, the ultimate divisions acutely prolonged, 
forming a flat spreading tuft of segments. [Plate XCVII B.] 
BLECHNUM SPICANT, v. MULTIFURCATUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Britain, Nature 
Printed, t. 43 C, fig. 85 Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 8 ed. 218. 

