26 ADIANTUM PUBESCENS. 



attention, and producing a noble-looking specimen when properly 

 grown. 



It was raised at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1834, 

 and is now very generally cultivated in Great Britain. 



An evergreen greenhouse species, very ornamental. 



A native of New Zealand and New Holland. 



Fronds pubescent, pedate, branches linear, narrow, acuminate, 

 pinnate; with numerous pinnules, which are dimidiate, bluntly 

 oblong, wedge-shaped, at the base, margin crenate. 



Length of frond from one foot to eighteen inches; colour 

 deep green. 



Sori small, numerous, from twelve to sixteen on a pinnule; 

 indusium reniform and hairy. 



Fronds terminal, nearly all fertile, rising out of a somewhat 

 tufted rhizoma. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Ingram, of the Royal Gardens, 

 Windsor, and Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for plants of this 

 species; and to the latter gentleman, Mrs. Riley, of Papplewick, 

 and Mr. Norman, of Hull, for fronds. 



This species is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. E. G. 

 Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Rollisson, of Tooting; A. 

 Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; Veitch, of Exeter; Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray; Masters, of Canterbury; Parker, of Hollo way; 

 Booth and Son, of Hamburg; and E. Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



