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became so marked that these were pricked oat for special 

 care. Eventually about a score of these were potted, 

 and Mr. Green and myself eventually were the owners of 

 as many extraordinarily beautiful specimens in which the 

 parental half-inch pinnules were narrowed and lengthened 

 into extremely slender ones, sometimes between two and 

 three inches in length, forming fronds of inconceivable 

 delicacy, while in some instances these pinnules were 

 prettily expanded at their tips on almost tassel-like lines. 

 One of Mr. Green's varied greatly by substituting for this 

 lengthening a multiplication of the pinnules and sub- 

 divisions, so that a dense plumose form resulted, reminding 

 one strongly of the Jones and Fox angulares described 

 above. 



The Royal Horticultural Society recognized the merit 

 of two of the writer's exhibits of the " gracillimum " 

 type, as he named the slender section, and of Mr. Green's 

 "plumosum," by two First Class Certificates and an 

 Award of Merit. Encouraged by these wonderful results, 

 the writer narrowly examined his own plant, and found a 

 large number of sporangia, or spore capsules, in twos and 

 threes on the edges of the pinnules, and quite easily visible 

 to the naked eye. A second very successful sowing was 

 made of these, some hundreds of plants resulting, of 

 which over a hundred displayed the "gracillimum" type, 

 and are developing in some cases forms which promise even 

 to excel the first batch, particularly in the tassel-like ex- 

 pansion of the tips, which appears not to be actual crests, 

 but a sort of fan-like development of terminal pinnules. 

 The parent pulcherrimum shows this tendency slightly. 

 Happily, despite the delicacy of make, all the offspring 

 have inherited the parental robustness of constitution, and 

 several plants of the original batch now measure nearly 

 five feet across their frondage, rendered somewhat pendulous 

 and spreading by their great breadth and slenderness, 

 though the parental form is of upright habit. Some of 

 the results of these two sowings, and also the comparative 



