I t is found in the counties of Cormvall, Devon, and
Somerset, Sussex, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, and
Northumberland. I t occurs in several places in Wales. In
Scotland around Loch Lomond, in Argyleshire, Isles of Arran
and Illull, Orkney, and the Hebrides. Also in Ireland.
In Yorkshire it is very abundant at Hackncss, in a shady
■wood.
The hahit of the plant is exceedingly gracefal and very
compact; the frond has a peculiar crispy appearance, and the
colour of a very lively green.
The fronds, which are deltoid, are trip in n a te ; the pinnules
oblong, profoundly pinnatifid, and having se rrated spmous-
mucronate recurved lobes; all the pinnules are curved upwards;
pinnæ opposite or sub-opposite.
Fronds numerous, glandulose on the un d e r side.
Sori medial and sub-terminal, circular in form, and covering
tbe whole under side of the frond.
Indusium jagged on the margin, and reniform.
Veins simple, forked or pinnate; venules direct.
Eachis and stipes covered with jagged scales. Stipes h alt
the length of the frond, rigid, and brownish purple in colour.
Eachis greenish.
Fronds terminal, and adherent to a tufted rhizoma.
L en g th of frond from twelve to twenty-four inches,
and
from five to eight inches in width.
Easily cultivated in a porous soil of loam and peat,
and
succeeds best when grown in a shady situation.
F o r plants of this species my obligations are due to
Mr.
Joseph Sidebotham, of Manchester, and to Mr. E . 1 - Millet,
of P enzance ; and for fronds to Mr. Thomas Moore, of the
Botanic Gardens, Chelsea.
T h e re is a variety, p ro life ra , which Mr. E . Sim possesses,
which bears little plants on its frond-stalks near the surface
of the soil. . ,
I t may he procured of Messrs. Jackson, of K i n g s t o n e i t c h ,
of Chelsea; A. Henderson, of Pine-apple P la c e ; E . G. H e n derson,
of St. Jo h n ’s W o o d ; Sim, of Foot’s C r a y ; Kennedy
of Covent G arden; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Cooling, of
Derby.