164 ASPIDIUM MUNITUM.—CHAMISSO’S SHIEI.D-FERN. 
Sequoia sempervirens, which were grand beyond conception. 
Each frond swept in graceful curves, some bending even to 
the ground, with a majestic beauty that thrilled me, and I 
could not help uncovering my head in profound admiration.” 
Mr. George C. Woolson, of Jersey City, writes that fronds are 
often found “five feet high, and we may regard it as one of 
’and he finds it to do 
well under cultivation. Shirley Hibberd’s London Gardener's 
Magazine for February 8th, 1879, states that it has already been 
introduced to culture in the Royal gardens of Kew, where it 
the finest of our North American ferns,’ 
proves to be “a handsome species, and very hardy, but being a 
rarity, a select place should be chosen for it.” Dr. Andrews 
says “it is often cultivated as a house fern in California, but 
then the fronds become dense and dwarfed.” 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLATE.—1I. A complete, but rather immature plant from the collection 
of the Arnold arboretum grown by Mr. Jackson Dawson. 2. An enlarged pinnule, 
showing the arrangement of the veins, and the disposition of the sporangia on them, as 
also the spinnulose margin. 3. Side view, enlarged, showing the shield-like indusium 
over the sporangia, : 
