34 ASPIDIUM FALCATUM. 



An evergreen species, usually looked upon as a greenhouse 

 or half-hardy Fern, yet last winter it lived out of doors with- 

 out any protection; the fronds were cut with frost, but this 

 spring the plants have put forth new fronds vigorously; 

 consequently it is deciduous in this climate, yet quite hardy. 



The colour of the frond is richer and darker when i]:rown 

 in the open air. 



Raised at the Koyal Gardens, Kew, in 1838. 



Native of Japan. 



Best known as the Cyrtomium falcatum. 



Fronds lanceolate in form; pinnate, the pinnse being shining 

 and coriaceous, ovate-acuminate, falcate, repand, slightly rounded 

 at the base, margin somewhat crenate; petiolate. 



Rachis and stipes densely clothed with huge brown scales. 



Fronds terminal, adherent to an upright rhizoma. 



Sori scattered over the under surface of the frond; indusium 

 orbicular. 



Length of frond from eighteen to thirty inches. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, and 

 to Mr. Clarke, Curator of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, for 

 plants of this species; and to Mr. Norman, of Hull, and Mr. 

 Clarke, of Glasgow, for fronds. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Yeitch, Jun., of Chelsea; 

 Masters, of Canterbury; Osborn, of Fulham; Kennedy, of 

 Covent Garden; Cooling, of Derby; Sim, of Foot's Cray; E. 

 G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; A. Henderson, of Pine- 

 apple Place; Veitch, of Exeter; and Stansfield, of Todmorden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



