22 ADIANTUM ASSIMILE. 



may be seen at the Kew Gardens. Sir William Hooker appears 

 to consider that A. assimile and A. JEthiopicum may be the 

 same plant. 



It was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, by A. 

 Cunningham, Esq., in the year 1823. 



This species is a greenhouse Fern, yet almost, if not quite, 

 hardy in some sheltered situations. I have had a plant which 

 has lived out of doors for the last five years, but has not, 

 however, flourished. It is a deciduous Fern, and one not 

 uncommonly met with in greenhouses, and often erroneously 

 named A. cuneatum. The young fronds are very delicate, 

 and are pale green in colour. 



A native of Yan Diemen's Land, New South Wales, New 

 Holland, New Zealand, Port Jackson, Encounter Bay, Swan 

 River, etc. 



This delicate and beautiful species has glabrous fronds, which 

 are slender; tripinnate; small pinnules, which are rhomboidal, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, and slightly crenate at the margin. 



Sori small and reniform. 



Fronds usually a foot long, of a vivid green colour. Rachis 

 and stipes smooth; fronds lateral, attached to a slender creeping 

 rhizoma. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of Pine- 

 apple Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Veitch, of 

 Chelsea; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Parker, of Holloway; Masters, 

 of Canterbury; and Booth, of Hamburg. 



I am indebted to Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg, for a plant; 

 and to Mr. Norman, of Hull, and Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, 

 for fronds. 



A species very readily propagated by divisions of the root. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



