I 64 ASPIDIUM MUNITUM. CHAMISSO's SHIELD-FERN, 



Sequoia sejupervirens, which were grand beyond conception. 

 Each frond swept in graceful curves, some bending even to 

 the ground, with a majestic beauty that thrilled me, and I 

 could not help uncovering my head in profound admiration." 

 Mr. George C. Woolson, of Jersey City, writes that fronds are 

 often found "five feet high, and we may regard it as one of 

 the finest of our North American ferns," and he finds it to do 

 well under cultivation. Shirley Hibberd's London Gardeners 

 Magazine for February 8th, 1879, states that it has already been 

 introduced to culture in the Royal gardens of Kew, where it 

 proves to be " a handsome species, and very hardy, but being a 

 rarity, a select place should be chosen for it." Dr. Andrews 

 says " it is often cultivated as a house fern in California, but 

 then the fronds become dense and dwarfed." 



Explanations of the Plate. — i . A complete, but rather immature plant from the collection 

 of the Arnold arboretum grown by Mr. Jackson Dawson. 2. An enlarged pinnule, 

 showing the arrangement of the veins, and the disposition of the sporangia on them, as 

 also the spinnulose margin. 3. Side view, enlarged, showing the shield-like indusium 

 over tlie sporangia. 



