wound the roots and planting them in moist earth placed 
etween two pieces of broken garden pot, a practice, we 
believe now very general in the cultivation of Ferns, and a 
_very rational one, since such fragments retain the moisture 
longer than the soil itself, and thus imitate, as it were, the 
crevices of rocks, where this beautiful tribe of plants so 
much delights to grow. 
B. Lanceola is a native of Brazil, where it appears to be 
not uncommon. It is named B. lanceolatum by Ranpp1, but 
SPRENGEL gives it as the B. Lanceola of Swarrz, though I 
know not in which of that author’s writings it is so called. 
It is not in his Synopsis Filicum, and WitipENow has no 
species of BLecnnum with a simple and undivided frond. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile Frond—Magnified. 
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