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The Killarney Fern (Trichomanes radicans) is only 

 found in the immediate neighbourhood of waterfalls, and 

 in places where constant moisture is the rule and the 

 direct rays of the sun are excluded, and so it can be 

 successfully grown only when kept pretty close and con- 

 stantly wetted overhead. It has a creeping, wiry, black- 

 looking stem, which clings like Ivy to a ledge of rock 

 or peat. 



Hymenophyllum Wilsoni and H. Tunbridgense are 



small moss-like plants, which grow in matted tufts on 

 the surface of damp rocks, the blacK, wiry, creeping stems 

 being tangled together. They may be easily removed in 

 flakes, with some soil or turf attached, and, if carefully 

 fastened down in their new quarters, will grow freely 

 in the same neighbourhood as the other Filmy Ferns. 



The Todeas which belong to this group require similar 

 treatment and atmosphere. They can stand several degrees 

 of frost, but no sun. 



The Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum capillus Veneris] 

 is found in some rocky nooks on the south and west 

 coasts of Ireland, as well as in the warmer parts of 

 Europe and Asia. In a Wardian case or in a damp, 

 warm greenhouse it grows well. The proper soil for it 

 is a very light turfy peat, mixed with silver sand, and 

 with lumps of sandstone pushed in amongst the roots. 



For baskets the best sorts are the different varieties 



