1878.] 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



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petals there is a dash of bright orange scarlet. 

 The combination of color is the great novelty. 



Adiaxtum prixceps. — This splendid Fern, 

 one of the finest of the Maiden-hairs, introduced 

 by us from New Grenada through Mr. Gustav 

 Wallis, and was figured in the Gardeners' 



length, with the lower pinnules bipinnate, so 

 that the frond itself becomes quadripinnate. 



The pinnules are large, the upper corner 

 obliquely overlaying the rachis; the base margin 

 is entire and slightly curved, the inner side, or that 

 turned towards the rachis, being also entire; 



ADIANTU3I PRINCEPS. 



Chronicle of August U, 1875, and described by 

 Mr. Moore in these terms : 



'•Not only does this Fern possess a degree of 

 boldness of character on account of the size of 

 the fronds, and pinnules, but the plants are also 

 Temarkably graceful from their fulness of de- 

 velopment, and the arching or pendant po.sition 

 they assume. The fronds are broadest at the 

 base, the lower pinnce being about a foot in 



while the somewhat rounded anterior margin 

 and truncate apex are cut into broadish shallow 

 lobes, and are generally fertile throughout, but 

 when sterile are minutely serrulate. The ter- 

 minal pinnule is larger than the rest, sharply 

 cuneate at the base, and spreading out into a fan- 

 shaped figure, that at the top of the frond being 

 fully H inches across." 

 It is one of the finest of all exhibition Ferns. It 



