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frond the appearance of a piece of brown cloth. Teins placed 

 between the two surfaces of the leaflet : these, to be seen in 

 their wondrous beauty, should have the tissue of substance of 

 the leaflet destroyed and removed by soaking in water. If 

 this be delicately done, one of the most beautiful examples 

 of elegant veining will be seen. Increases fast by dividing its 

 quickly-creeping rhizome. 



JN". BUPESTBIS (Rock). One of the tiniest of all Ferns. 

 We have kept it in a three-inch pot for years. Native of 

 Australia. Fronds of two kinds. Fertile, narrow and blunt 

 at the top, and not more than 3 inches high. Barren ones 

 thick, oval, and not more than 2 inches high. This pretty 

 little Fern might be grown in those tiny pots in which we see 

 Sedums, and small Aloes, and Mesembryanthemums cultivated 

 and sold in Italian warehouses in London, generally termed 

 baby plants. It might also be planted on a hollow stone, and 

 hung up in a Wardian case. Increases freely by dividing 

 the creeping rhizome. 



NOTHOCHL^NA. 



The greenhouse species belonging to this genus are amongst 

 the loveliest of the tribe ; they are also like Cheilanthes, some- 

 what tender and impatient of wet over the fronds. "We have 

 found them thrive best placed on a shelf, about a foot from the 

 glass, kept moist in summer and rather drier in winter. The 

 soil should be rough sandy peat, and half-decayed leaves, 

 freely mixed with silver sand. 



NOTHOCHLJENA DisTANS (Distant). So called from the 

 pinnse being wide apart. A delicate New-Holland Fern of 

 considerable beauty. Fronds bipinnate or twice-cut, growing 

 6 inches long; pinnae without stalks and hairy. Pinnules 

 opposite and distant. All the stalks are thickly covered with 

 scales. Spore-masses placed on the margins of the fronds. 

 Increased by dividing the creeping rhizomes. 



