40 ASPIDIUM PROLIFERUM. 



Length from eighteen to twenty-four inches; colour dull green. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Moore, of the Chelsea Botanic 

 Gardens, and to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for plants of 

 this species. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of 

 Pine-apple Place; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Kennedy, of Covent 

 Garden; Yeitch, Jun., of Chelsea; Stansfield, of Todmorden; 

 E. Cooling, of Derby; and Young, of Taunton. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



