No. 742. 
LYGODIUM SCANDENS. 
Class. Order. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 
This is a curious climbing Fern, with ele. 
gant foliage, and running sometimes up- 
wards of ten feet in height. It appears to 
vary much, as among the different figures of 
it referred to by authors, there seems little 
resemblance ; the one nearest like our plant 
is in Houttuyn's Pflanzensystem, tab. 94, 
fig. 2. 
It is a native of China and Japan, and re- 
quires to be kept in the stove: it may be 
inereased, though sparingly, by separating 
the roots: the soil should be sandy peat. 
ba diese li LLA p vot, 
are much more entire than those towards 
the upper part of the plant, which latter 
alone produce the fructification. 
