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as such. The most prominent plants are naturally a row 



of now finely developed specimens of P. aculeatum gvacilliimim 



Druevyj probably of full size in several instances. These 



have^turned out to be, not merely of quite unique beauty with 



their long lucent surfaced pinnules an inch or two long, but 



as having a fine robust constitution. No tv/o are precisely 



alike in make but all are peculiarly beautiful, a symmetrical 



circlet of characteristic fronds nearly a yard in length is a 



sight to be seen. About half a score of these, including a 



specimen of Mr. C. B.Green's "plumosum" of likeorigin,but 



on very different lines, are ranged along this side, and only 



interrupted by a grand specimen seedling of P. ang. 



B al dm iuii, with perfect tips and without a blemish. This, 



unfortunately, though raised from spores gathered by 



ourselves from the original finely dissected form, does not 



repeat the parent, but only rivals, or perhaps excels, in 



constitution P. ang. d. p. denswn Jones and Fox, whence, 



according to Mr. E.J. Lowe, Baldwinii arose as a bulbiL 



Along the shelf upon which these gems are elevated are a 



number of Hartstongue finds of our own and one or two 



specimens of that unique gem L. p. m. pevcvistata apospora^ 



any portion of whose delicately fringed and tasselledfronds,^ 



is capable of producing an indefinite number of plants by 



associated apospory and apogamy, first growing out into 



Prothalli, while these almost immediately bud out into 



the parental form, the usual slow sexual process being 



omitted. Garnett's aposporous and crested ^././. Clavissima 



is here in fine form, but it is quite obvious that space 



precludes detail of all the specimens. 



On the opposite^ side are grouped the Polypodium vnlgave 

 varieties, a number of good specimens monopolizing half 

 the length. Along the window at the end are grouped a 

 considerable number mostly of small-growing forms, among 

 which is Scol. v. Cousensiij the most marked of the dense 

 ramifying varieties as found wild. Here, too, is our own 

 spirale, rainoso-cristatum, finibriattim and others of the Harts- 

 tongue tribe, and, as an exception in size, a fine plant 



