b ASPIDIL'M PATENS. 



Sori medial. Inclusium glandulose, and exceedingly hairy. 



Fronds pubescent and glandulose beneath, terminal, and 

 adherent to a somewhat creeping rhizoma. 



Stipes scaly near the base, the scales being large. 



Length from thirty-five to sixty inches; colour pale green. 



Mr. Henderson has a variety (figured on plate iv) which is 

 very distinct, and which I have figured under the name of 

 variety Hendersoni. Cultivated in the Wentworth collection 

 for some years, and in all probability originated there. Although 

 very different from the normal state, still it would be diffi- 

 cult to draw up a description which might not apply to both 

 forms in different states of growth. Let it suffice therefore to 

 mention its chief differences. In the normal state the length 

 of the frond is from two to three feet, whilst in the variety 

 Hendersoni it attains the length of from four to five feet. In 

 the variety the pinnas are much narrower and longer, and 

 terminating in a narrow attenuated apex. In both forms the 

 two lower segments are the longest, but more decidedly so 

 in the variety. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Masters, of Canterbury, for 

 plants of this species; and to Mr. Moore, of Chelsea, and to 

 Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for fronds. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea; 

 Eollisson, of Tooting; Kennedy, of Covent Garden; A. Hen- 

 derson, of Pine-apple Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's 

 Wood; Sim, of Foot's Cray; Masters, of Canterbury; Booth, 

 of Hamburg; and Cooling, of Derby. 



The illustrations are from Mr. Joseph Henderson's fronds. 



Variety Hendersoni. 



