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Stipes from four to six inches in length, and rachis four
inches. Stipes slender, ebeneous, and polished; colour reddish
brown; base slightly scaly.
Caudex creeping and scaly.
Veins slender and forked.
F o r fronds my thanks are due to Mr. Downes, of Hillsboro
Terrace, Ilfracombe.
The illustration is from Mr. Downes’ frond.
rOLYPODIUM VULGÄRE, V a R. C r is t a t u m .
P e r r y , MS.
P L A T E X X V I . H.
Polypadium—Polypody. Vulgare—Common. Cristatum—Crested.
T h i s v e r y b e a u t i f u l F e r n i s a s y e t r a r e i n c u l t i v a t i o n .
I t was discovered in Ire lan d by Mr. llc u ry S. P e rry , of
Hock Lodge, Monkstown, County Cork.
Like A spidium filix -m a s, m r . cristata, the present plant has
multifid or tasseled apices on each pinna, the midrib of the frond
dividing and branching about an inch below the apex of
the frond, as well as the mid-vein of each pinna about a
quarter of an inch below the apex of each pinna.
Sori large and prominent.
Mr. R. Sim, of Foot’s Cray, purchased the stock of this
very distinct Fern , from whom it can he procured.
For a description of Pohjpodhim vulgäre the reader is
referred to page 111, vol. i, of my “ N a tu ra l History of British
and Exotic F e rn s.” The present variety, from the points of
each frond being branched and crested, and all its divisions
terminating in crested tufts, so as to form a frilled margin, is
both distinct and beautiful.
My thanks are due to Mr. P e rry , the discoverer, for fronds
of this variety.
The illustration is from k lr. P e r ry ’s frond.