. A history of British ferns. Ferns. LOPHODIUM MULTIPLOEUM. 153 that the accustomed eye acknowledges to be distinct: this is the case with the eight Lophodia; whether they are properly termed species, varieties, or forms, matters but little ; they are objects with which all cultivators are intimately acquainted, and therefore cultivators, as well as inquirers, will be glad of names whereby to designate them. In conformity with this view, I have separated and named as species all the forms but one, and that one I now propose to describe as a variety. This plant, for which I propose the name of
. A history of British ferns. Ferns. LOPHODIUM MULTIPLOEUM. 153 that the accustomed eye acknowledges to be distinct: this is the case with the eight Lophodia; whether they are properly termed species, varieties, or forms, matters but little ; they are objects with which all cultivators are intimately acquainted, and therefore cultivators, as well as inquirers, will be glad of names whereby to designate them. In conformity with this view, I have separated and named as species all the forms but one, and that one I now propose to describe as a variety. This plant, for which I propose the name of " nanum," and of which a figure is given in the margin, rather less than the natural size, is dwarf, rigid, and convex in every part, and usually of a very dark green co- lour, sometimes inclining to brown. The clusters of capsiiles are large, very distant, very dark-coloured, and conceal, rather than are covered by, a small shapeless involucre, on which I have never discovered the glands observable in the normal form of the plant. It is of frequent occurrence in the boggy and hill districts of Scotland and Ireland, and I have seen it, although more sparingly, on the mountains of Wales, and in the woods of Sussex and Kent. Its character did not appear changed by cultivation for two years at Leominster; and Mr. Tatham, who has paid much attention to this form, informs me that he has ob- served it in one station for twenty years, but that it never attains a greater size, although the normal state of L. multiflo- rum, in the same locality, attains a height of three CttltttCt. Lophodium multiflorum grows freely in cultivation : planted in rich vegetable mould, it attains an enormous size : it should be abundantly supplied with Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Newman, Ed
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