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All cvci'gieen hardy, or nearly hardy, species, iound in
Scotland sonic six or seven years ago by a gardener, who
gathered it for A . v irid e ; the discoverer died soon after,
and nothing appears to be kiioirn as to the particular locality
in Scotland. From Air. Aloore’s description, in the “ Nature-
printed Ferns,” it appears to have come into the possession
of Air. AV’illiams, gardener to C. B. AVarncr, Esq., oi Hoddesdon.
Mr. AVhlllams has given the stock of this species to Air. Robert
Rarker, Nurseryman, Holloway, from whom it can be now
procured, and, I believe, from no other Nurseryman.
The fronds are longer and narrower in proportion than
A . fontanum; the outline also differs, being equal and almost
linear, not broader upwards, as in A . fontanum. In A .
fontanum the lower pinnæ are more distant. In A . refractum
the pinnæ are refracted in a remarkable degree, and are less
divided; the habit of growth is spreading, and the fronds arc
proliferous, the small bulbils being mostly formed at the junction
of the pinnæ with the rachis.
Fronds linear sub-bipinnate, the pinnæ being short, oblong-
obtuse, and refracted, at the base pinnate, above pinnatifid;
lower pinnules somewhat circular, with a few large angular
mucronate teeth, the upper ones two-four toothed.
Rachis chesnut-coloured, marginate above.
Sori short, oblong, oblique, in a line on each side near the
costa of the pinnæ.
Length of frond seven or eight inches; colour dark green.
The fronds arc bulb-bearing.
Aly thanks are due to Air. Parker, of Holloway, for a plant
and fronds of this species.
It is in the collection of Air. R. Parker, of Holloway, irom
whom only it can he procured.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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Asp len ium—Spleenwort. Atlen u a tum—AUenuated.
A S IN G U L A R , sombrc-looking, dwarf, rigid Pern, whose dark
vrccn fronds, fleshy texture, and narrow, ragged outline contrast