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tints. There are also the wonderful Gold and Silver 
Ferns, their fronds thickly coated with bright or pale 
yellow, and white or cream coloured farinose powder, all 
giving variety in colour of foliage such as is rarely, if 
ever, found in other plants. 
GYMNOGRAMMA OCHRACEA, 
(Showing powder on fronds.) 
The arrangement of the clusters of spore cases on the 
fronds, the remarkable diversity of the venation or 
veining, and other characteristics of the foliage, present 
