. British ferns and their varieties. XIV Digitata Mrs. Hodgson (Jones)Mrs. J. K. Hodgson, Ulverstone. Westmoreland. (Raised) 1875. 1 ft. 9 in. It is clearly to the credit of this variety, that with such strongnatural temptation to break out into extravaganceâas is evidentfrom the conduct of its pinna?âthe plant itself should never havelost its headâfor the apex of the frond shows no signs of crestingor even of furcation. Mrs. Hodgson writes : When found, itdid not show any digitate character, only a few of the pinnae werejust bifidâbut it was very young, only about eight inches high ; ithas go
. British ferns and their varieties. XIV Digitata Mrs. Hodgson (Jones)Mrs. J. K. Hodgson, Ulverstone. Westmoreland. (Raised) 1875. 1 ft. 9 in. It is clearly to the credit of this variety, that with such strongnatural temptation to break out into extravaganceâas is evidentfrom the conduct of its pinna?âthe plant itself should never havelost its headâfor the apex of the frond shows no signs of crestingor even of furcation. Mrs. Hodgson writes : When found, itdid not show any digitate character, only a few of the pinnae werejust bifidâbut it was very young, only about eight inches high ; ithas gone on improving, but I dont think it has ever had a fronddivided at the apex ; I found it in Langdale. Mr. Barnes includes under the name polydactyla the varietyfound nearly twenty years ago by Mr. Clarke, of the Glasgow BotanicGardens, and long known in the trade as cristata ; this, like poly-dactylous forms generally, is crested at the apex ; also cristataClowes, found by J. Huddart, long ago, near Windermere. m m It * % J. XXXIV LASTREA MONTANA, var. DIGITATA 332 BRITISH FERNS XXXV Cristata Barnes (IVol/.)Mr. J. M. Barnes. Westmoreland. ft. The grandest discovery of recent yearsâit holds the same placeamong montanas that the old cristata did, and does, among themale ferns. One can hardly help feeling that it is just a little bitunfair that this and montana Barnesii (vide No. XXXVI) shouldhave both fallen to the lot of one discovererâat least, one wouldhave been inclined to do so if it hadnt been Mr. Barnesâwhowrites : It was but a small plant when I found it, with four or fivefronds, but at least one of these had spores; these I sowed at onceand in the following year three distinct forms appeared in aboutequal proportions, one-third being normal L. montana, one-thirdcristata and named by Moore coronans, and one-third ramo-augustate and wonderfully crested ; these were named by Moorecristata a?igustissima ; there would I think be about 150 plants inall,âsay 50
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