52 NOTHOCHL^NA MARANT^. 



places it in the same family with our lovely British Ceterach 

 officinarum. 



Fronds ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate, blunt oblong pinnules, 

 the lower pinnules stalked, entire at the apex; densely covered 

 beneath with reddish scales, frond rising out of a short stout 

 creeping rhizoma. 



Sori terminal and marginal. 



A stiff growing frond varying in length from six to ten 

 inches. 



Found in the south of Europe, Madeira, Teneriffe, the 

 Canary Isles, and in Abyssinia. 



An evergreen greenhouse species, easily cultivated. 



Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray Nursery, has been good enough to 

 send me a plant of N. Marantce, and I have received excellent 

 fronds from Miss Kingston, of Colwick; Mr. Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray; Mr. James Atkins, of Painswick; and from Mr. Norman, 

 of Hull. 



I believe that Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray, and Messrs. A. Hen- 

 derson, of Pine-apple Place, are the only English Nurserymen 

 having plants for sale. It is in the catalogue of Messrs. Booth, 

 of Hamburgh. 



The illustration is taken from a frond forwarded by Mr. Atkins, 

 of Painswick. 



