genus. 
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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
DASYLIRION. About eight species, natives of 
Mexico-Texan North America, have been referred to this 
To those described on pp. 442-8, Vol. I., the 
following should now be added: 
D, quadrangulatum (four-angled). fl. small, disposed in a 
dense, spike-like panicle; flower-stem about 5¥t. high. /. slender, 
quadrangular, about 2ft. long. Stem stout, about 3ft. high, 
crowned with a dense tuft of leaves. Texas, 1887. Stove or 
greenhouse. (R. G. 1887, p. 280.) 
Davallia—continued. 
D. elegans polydactyla (many-fingered). This differs from the 
type in the many-fingered, dilated apex of the frond, and of the 
pinne, which are all multitidly divided or crested in such a manner 
as to give the plant an extremely ornamental character. 1882. 
D. ferruginea (rusty). sti. wide-creeping, climbing, not prickly. 
JSronds quadripinnatifid; pinnules of the lower pinn 2in, to 3in. 
long, 1}in. broad, ovate ; segments lin. long, jin. broad, cut down 
to the rachis below, the lobes jin. to gin. broad, cuneate at base 
Fic. 14, DAVALLIA TENUIFOLIA VEITCHIANA, 
DAVALLIA. To the species deseribed on pp. 445-7, 
Vol. I., the following should now be added: 
D. aculeata (prickly). *hiz. creeping, stout, fibrillose. — sti. 
(including rachis) 4ft. to 6ft. long, strong, scandent, spinose- 
flexuose. /ronds tripinnatifid ; lower pinne 1ft. to 1}ft. long, 4in. 
to 6in. broad, ovate-lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate, 2in. to Sin. 
long, lin. broad; segments jin. broad, cuneate, deeply two to 
four-lobed. sori small, cup-shaped, terminal. West Indies. 
SYN. Stenoloma aculeata. 
D. brachycarpa (short-fruited). A form of D. gibberosa. 
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both deeply toothed and shallowly crenate. soi small, marginal, 
shallow. Madagascar, 1887. SYN. Stenoloma ferruginea. 
D. fijensis plumosa (feathery). In this variety the segments 
are extremely narrow, and all parts of the frond have a specially 
graceful, plumose appearance. 1882. 
D. foeniculacea (Fennel-like). s//. erect, firm, 6in. to 8in. long. 
fronds Yin. to 18in. long, 6in, to 12in. broad, lanceolate-deltoid, 
quadripinnate ; lower pinnules lanceolate, acuminate, 2in. to din. 
long, lin. broad ; segments cut down to the rachis into simple or 
forked, linear, filiform, ultimate divisions, one to two lines long, 
