. British ferns and their varieties. LXIV POLYSHCHUM ANGULARE, War. CRISTATO-GRACILE MOLY BRITISH FERNS LXV DlVISILOBUM CRISTATUM (Woll.) Messrs. Ivery. (Raised.) ft. 10 in. By Mr. Wollaston. The parentage of this splendid variety isunknown. All that can be ascertained is that among a large batchof seedlings raised by Messrs. Ivery, from seed of some form ofdivisilobe supplied by Mr. Wollaston, a very fair sprinkling ofcrested forms appeared ;—Mr. Barnard Hankey also raised a mostextraordinary batch of crested divisilobes from some non-crestedvariety,—and in several instances Major Jone
. British ferns and their varieties. LXIV POLYSHCHUM ANGULARE, War. CRISTATO-GRACILE MOLY BRITISH FERNS LXV DlVISILOBUM CRISTATUM (Woll.) Messrs. Ivery. (Raised.) ft. 10 in. By Mr. Wollaston. The parentage of this splendid variety isunknown. All that can be ascertained is that among a large batchof seedlings raised by Messrs. Ivery, from seed of some form ofdivisilobe supplied by Mr. Wollaston, a very fair sprinkling ofcrested forms appeared ;—Mr. Barnard Hankey also raised a mostextraordinary batch of crested divisilobes from some non-crestedvariety,—and in several instances Major Jones has had crestedseedlings of divisilobes from some unknown source and and Mr. Moly have each had one ; it would appearthat some particular strain of simple divisilobe, not yet identified,has the curious faculty of freely throwing crested *2! ?:;? \ N, B A-? ??? -- Hi i*% s ? #^/^S§ ti 3 ? .. ; •••jfW f LXV POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, Ua/. DIVISILOBUM CRISTATUM lvERY 394 BRITISH FERNS LXVI PULCHERRIMUM (Woll.) Mrs. Agar Thompson. S. Devon. 1863. 2 ft. 3 in. Clearly the fairies have been at work here ! This variety is con-sidered to be a step beyond plumosum. It was first found in by Mr. Padley and by the late Mr. C. Jackson ; after-wards in S. Devon by Mrs. Agar Thompson and by Mr. J. Smith(then gardener to Mr. Padley), and in many instances by and Mr. Wills in the border-land of Devon, Somerset, andDorset. Mr. Moly distinguishes between the permanently symmetricalvarieties (of which he has been the much-envied discoverer ofthree, and Mr. Wills and Mr. Smith of one each) and the non-permanent or intermittent forms of which he has found six andMr. Wills two (Mr. Padley and Mr. Thompsons plants were alsointermittent). Mr. Moly has also found two of a class called byMr. Wollaston caudicula
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