obtained a fine form of this character from AVhitbarrow, AVesG
morcland. This variety is sometimes called crispum multifldum in
gardens.
102. undulato-prqjcctum (AI.). This is a curious and constant
broad somewhat undulated form, vdth a cordate base, remarkable
for the production of distant projecting pointed marginal lobes,
half an inch long or more, and sometimes split into three or four
linear tooth-liivo divisions. It was found at Alulgrave Castle, Yorkshire,
by Alessrs. Stansfleld, of Todmorden.
103. corrugatum (AVoll.). A veiy pretty variety, with fronds a
foot or moro in length, and two inches broad ; they are cordate at
the base, attenuate at the apex, and elegantly undulated or corrugate
on the margin, where they are also somewhat sinuately or
sometimes towards the top laeoratoly-lohato. It is a fertile form,
found near the Devil’s Punch Bowl, Hindhead, Surrey, by Hillman,
a collector, and is in the possession of Air. AVollaston.
104. conjunctum (AI.). A very dwarf pretty form. The fronds
are six to eight inches high, an inch and a half broad near the
base, dividing about half way up into two divisions, and these
beooming again forked with multifid apices ; the margins are undulated,
and the multifid apices of the lohes have thoir points twisted
as in cnsta-galli (142). It was found by Air. James in Guernsey,
and maintains its pecuKar features.
105. complicatim (AVoll.). This is a very neat and interesting
variety. The fronds are six inches to a foot or more in length,
cordate, sometimes unequal at the base, simple or multifid, with
twisted lobes at tho apex, sometimes forked in the costa with the
branches crossing each other transversely; the margins irregularly
crenate, somewhat laciniately-toothed and undulated. The sori are
numerous, in narrow approximate Hnes, which seem to have an
irregular direction in consequence of the undulation of the margin.
It was found at Chislehurst, Kent, by Air. AVollaston.
106. spirale (AI.). This is a very curious dwarf variety. The
fronds are from three to five inches long, the broadest about an
inch in width, undulate in the lower part, and becoming twisted
towards the top in a spiral or corkscrew fashion. This, which proves
to be a constant form, rather curious than beautiful, has been found
in Guernsey by Air. James; and moro recently at Nailsworth in
Gloucestershire, by Airs. Campbell.
Here also may be ma\-a.i.dY—sagittato-crispum (8), sagittato-
laeeratum (9), GlapkamU (13), and compositum (14).
Variabile Series.
107. variabile (AVoll.) This curious form, which as its name
implies, has fronds of various size and shape, is a vigorous growing
coarse variety, constant to its peculiar characters. The fronds are
sometimes nearly normal, with an unequal cordate base, just below
which a stalked or sessile distinct reniform lobe or branch is produced.
Some fronds are branched in the stipes or near the base, or towards
the apex, but are otherwise normal. Others are abbreviated, the
apex being either abruptly rounded off or separating into two subreniform
overlapping lobes: these abbreviated fronds heing sometimes
not more than one or two inches long. Sometimes the margin is
very unequally divided—once or oftener— almost or quite to the
midrib, tho divisions forming bluntly rounded or subreniform lohes.
The base is usually unequal, and very commonly has one of these
lobes an inch or two in length formed there. Some plants have
many of the fronds with the stipes divided and bearing two short
equal kidney-shaped lohes: which state has been called Jimii/orwie;
in some fronds of this form sent by Air. Chanter, the two roni-
form lohes standing opposite with their sides incurved, produced a
goblet-shaped frond. In other cases, the entire frond consists of one
of these reniform lohes, dwarf and unequal-sided. Occasionally the
fronds are branched, each branch bearing its reniform lobe or lobes.
The plants always have the distinct reniform basal branch, sessile
or stalked, or tho few distant rounded subreniform marginal
divisions, but are in other respects often normal, and abundantly
fertile, though they are occasionaUy somewhat undulated, and rarely
supralineate. It has been found in—Guernsey, Br. Allchin, G.
Jackson. Devonshire: Hfracombe, iie». J. M. Chanter, J. Bodds;
Barnstaple, C. Jackson. Somersetshire: Nettlecombe, 0. Elworthy.
Sussex: Littlehampton, O. B. Wollaston. Isle of AVight. Lancashire
: near Preston, A. Stansfleld. [Plate LXXXVIII.]
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