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FERN GROWING 



has the incised character of incisum-Footii, and the large 

 pinnules of magnificum with the habit of Farleyense. A 

 seedHng raised from Sibyl at Nettlecombe Court is identical 

 with this. Besides Sibyl, the author raised in the same batch 

 of seedlings autumnale and luminare, two varieties that are 

 not unlike nobile, the one having an erect habit, and the other 

 dependent fronds, while both have autumnal golden tints. 



Fig. g. — Kalon. Basal pinna. 



In 1882 a fourth sowing, consisting of the varieties Daphnites, 

 fissum, and cornubiense, gave no seedlings of importance ; only 

 about thirty grew to maturity, and most of these were copies 

 either of Daphnites or of fissum, and only three showed the 

 characters of cornubiense. 



EXPERIMENT NO. II. 



In 1870 five varieties of Asplenium marinum were sown 

 together, i.e., capitatum, caudatum, ramo-trapeziforme, paral- 



