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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 



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This little fern is of close, compact growth, notwithstanding that it is furnished 

 with a slender, creeping, scaly caudex. Hence, it forms a dense mass of delicate 



evergreen linear pinnate fronds, which grow from four to six inches in length, 

 and are exceedingly beautiful. The pinnae are dimidiate, that is to say, developed 

 only on one side of the costa, and hence the name of hemiptera, which means 



