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Jamaica just as they were found, on pieces of rotten logs, and 
mixed with various sorts of mosses, some of which are more con- 
epicious than the associated “filmies’”’ themselves. Included 
kinds of ferns. Young plants have been constantly spring- 
ing up, self-sown in the Jamaican woods, but coming to germi- 
nation only after the material had reached the Garden. As these 
Fic. t1, Evergreen spinulose fern, Dryopterts intermedia. 
reach sufficient size they are picked out, and, if of interest, 
potted and grown to maturity. Inthis way a considerable num- 
ber of species, new to the garden collection, have been added in 
the last two or three years and more new ones continue to appear. 
But aside from the filmy-ferns, the large public conservatories 
contain the most complete collection of living ferns to be foun 
at the Garden. Several hundred species are represented here, 
located principally in houses No. 10 and No. 11. A few requir- 
ing cooler winter temperature are kept in house No. 12, anda few 
