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sophy, so I make no quarrel with Mr. Baker for placing this under 

 !Nephrodium in Hooker's " Synopsis." (By the way, every lover of 

 ferns should buy Hooker's " Synopsis Filicuni," published by Hard- 



wicke, Piccadilly, price I don't know — not under a guinea 



certainly.) It is a very polystichum-like fern, with large dark green 

 glossy, elongated, deltoid fronds, the stipes of each is much beset 

 with brown scales, the two lower pinnse divergent from and larger 

 than the rest, and the pinnules rather halberd-shaped than " lan- 

 ceolate," as they are described in Hooker's " Synopsis." A splendid 

 fern, adapted for cool ferneries, always fresh, glossy, and gay, and 

 taking no harm if subjected to a few degrees of frost. 



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55. Litohrochia incisa. — A splendid greenhouse fern, with long 

 arching fronds ; the stipes reddish-purple ; the pinna?, which are 

 distinctly and distantly divided, brilliant light green. This is very 

 distinct and beautiful, but must have room to display its beauties, 

 as the fronds average three feet in length. In Mrs. Hibberd's cool 

 fernery it has borne the brunt of five winters without aid of arti- 

 ficial heat. 



56. Pteris sinensis. — This is a choice and desirable fern for the 

 amateur who already possesses a collection, but is scarcely useful to 

 the beginner or the "limited liability" cultivator. It is the Pteris 

 crenata of Hooker's " Synopsis Filicum," and of " Lowe's Ferns," 

 (vol. hi., plate 40.) It is a good companion to Pteris serrulata, and, 

 like it, very much inclined to become a weed of the warm fernery. 

 "Warm greenhouse temperature will keep it all winter. S. H. 



