30 ASPLENIUM VIVIPARUM. 



I take the opportunity of replying to numerous inquirers res- 

 pecting where fronds may be purchased. At the present moment 

 I am only aware of Mr. Pamplin, the Botanical Bookseller, of 

 Frith Street, London, who, I believe, supplies fronds for 

 collections of dried Ferns. 



The A. fosmculaceum of Authors differs from the present 

 species, but may be considered as a variety of A. viviparum. 



Keceived at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1844, from 

 Messrs. Rollisson. 



A stove Fern, found in the Mauritius. 



This evergreen species has glabrous fronds, of an ovate-lance- 

 olate shape, tripinnate, with oblong acuminate pinnae, the 

 apices of which are viviparous, the segments linear-filiform. 



Fronds terminal, attached to a somewhat creeping scaly 

 rhizoma. 



Propagated very readily by cultivating the young plants that 

 are produced on the fronds; these are best secured close to the 

 soil by small pieces of wire bent in the form of a hair-pin. 



I am indebted to Mr. Ingram, of the E-oyal Gardens, Windsor, 

 and to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for plants of this species; 

 and to the same gentlemen, and Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg, 

 for fronds. 



A. viviparum may be procured of Messrs. A. Henderson, of 

 Pine-apple Place; Yeitch, Jun., of Chelsea; Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Rollisson, of 

 Tooting; Parker, of Hollo way; Booth and Son, of Hamburg; 

 and E. Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



