PARSLEY FERN. 59 
neatly circular cluster of seeds at, or very near, its 
os wails “_ aes quite ment the membranous 
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a uricled 
at the ne on one side only. The character of the 
barren frond is very various: its appearance is gene- 
rally crowded and crisped, like the leaves of parsley, 
whence the name of Parsley Fern, very frequently 
applied to this species; when carefully examined, how- 
ever, its ultimate divisions or leaflets very closely 
apt with those of the fertile frond. 
This pretty little fern is local in Britain, and almost 
confined to the north of the Mersey; a few roots have 
rr tl in Shropshire; on Queen and 
Idris, in North Wales, and also in Glamorgan- 
nd. it is a forn of very 
