No. 868. 
ASPLENIUM PALMATUM. 
"Class. Order. 
CRYPTOGAMIA  FILICES, 
This is anative of Spain and Portugal, the 
Azores, Canaries, Madeira, and Barbary : 
it has been long known, and both Tourne- 
fort aud Plukenet have represented a leaf 
of it. 
We recollect having it in cultivation 
above twenty years ago, since which time 
it has been quite lost in this country; but 
has lately been re-introduced by the Horti- 
cultural Society of London, from whom we 
received our plant in the autumn of 1823. 
It thrives best when preserved in the 
stove, and should be potted in peat earth 
and loam, with pieces of pot round the 
roots. It occasionally admits of increase 
by dividing the roots. 
