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dry ; in this case the best plan is to cut it down and burn all the 

 fronds, and as soon as new growth appears, repot it, and encourage 

 with warmth and moisture. 



JPohjpodium laclmopodium. — This is the downy-footed polypody of 

 Jamaica, a true stove-fern, which with liberal treatment may be grown 



POLTPODIUM LACHirOPODIUH. 



to huge dimensions, the fronds averaging four to six feet in length, and 

 the pinnae twelve to eighteen inches. The nearly triangular (deltoid) 

 fronds of this lovely fern are much and finely divided ; tripinnatifid ; 

 the pinnules are lanceolate, the segments hairy, those near the apex 

 entire, the others pinnatifid. The rachis is scaly, and rises from a 

 fawny scaled crown, and no inconsiderable part of the beauty of thig 



