Portion of young Frond. 



PTERIS TREMULA. 



R. Brown. Moore and Houlston. Fee. Kunze, 

 Presl. J. Smith. 



PLATE XLV. VOL. III. 



Pteris chrysocarpa, 



affinis, 



edulis, var. platyphylla, 



Link. Schott, M.S., 



(not o/" Hooker & Greville.) 

 Richard. 

 Fischer. 



Pteris — Brake. 



Tremula — Trembling. 



This abundant species, handsome as it is, becomes a pest in 

 our collections; young plants spring up in all the pots, and 

 increase so rapidly in size, that unless they are destroyed would 

 soon monopolize a whole house to themselves. No ferns grow 

 so freely from spores as Pteris tremula, P. serrulata, Hypohpis 

 repens, and Nephrodium molle. In a collection of several 



