STOVE FERNS. 



IN giving a list of Stove Ferns, we shall confine ourselves to 

 such as can be readily procured, easily cultivated, and are of 

 considerable beauty three points of great importance to culti- 

 vators generally. The task is rather a heavy one, because 

 there have been lately great alterations made in the names of 

 Ferns by various writers upon this family. We shall, however, 

 use the names commonly adopted, and arrange them alphabeti- 

 cally, as being more easy of reference, adding occasional hints 

 of such peculiar cultivation as each species may require. 

 ACROPHORUS. See Leucostegia. 



ACEOSTICHUM:. 



ACKOSTTCHUM AUREUM, Fig. 1. A Fern of considerable size, 

 growing from 8 to 10 feet hijrh, and sometimes making a stem 

 3 feet high, consequently requiring a large stove to grow it in. 

 The fertile fronds are erect. Two or three of the lower pinnse 

 on the fronds are often barren. The barren leaves, or fronds, 

 are 6 feet long, bending downwards, with thin, light green, side 

 leaflets, or pinnae. The fronds stand upon the top of an erect 

 stem. To grow it well, pot it in turfy loam and sand kept very 

 moist, and give a heat in summer of 80. It is a noble species, 



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