Portion of mature Frond— upper side. 



ADIANTUM YAEIUM. 



Hooker. Willdenow. 



PLATE XVIII. VOL. III. 



Acliantum fructuosum, 

 " tetra/phyllum, 



" ullosum, 



Kunze, (not LrNK oe Speexgel.) 



SlEBEE, (not "WlLLDESOW, KlOTZCII, 



oe Miguel.) 



LlNNiETJS. WlLLDEXOW. SwAETZ. 

 SCHKEHE. 



A dian turn — Dry. 



Varium — Various. 



A handsome Fern, and one pretty well distributed in our 

 English gardens. It is rather delicate, requiring care in its 

 cultivation, and to be kept in a very warm atmosphere. 



Some authorities place Acliantum varium and A. villosum as 

 two different Ferns, yet they seem to run so closely into each 

 other, that it is impossible to say which belongs to which; 

 they have therefore been here considered as one and the same 

 Fern, especially as Humboldt and Kunth have remarked, "an 

 idem cum Adianto cilloso." Sir W. J. Hooker, although he 



