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friend Cyrtomium falcatum, which is worth a place anywhere among 

 ferns, and fortunately it will grow anywhere and is always noble. As 

 for the rest they consisted of various small and comparatively choice 

 subjects, which I shall name as they occur to me — Pteris scaler ula, very 



beautiful in the lace-like divisions and light green hue of its fronds, 

 but has a habit of running about by means of its extending rhizomes, 

 just as if the case belonged to it, and not to you. It is really a gem, 

 and always grows well in peat, cocoa-nut, or any soil of a light 



