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banks in shady lanes, on dry stone walls in dusty roads, 

 where there is not much shade for it, and frequently 

 covers an old brick wall as with a felt of small yellowish 

 fronds. When growing between the bricks inside a 

 well, and putting its huge tongues down towards the 

 water, it is a splendid object, and a good companion to 

 the true maidenhair, which will thrive in a similar 

 position. The species and all the varieties make first- 

 rate pot plants. 



SCOLOPBNDEIUM VTJLGAEB BAMO-MAB.GINATITM. 



The most generally useful of the varieties, and one 

 of the ferns which should be first of all secured by the 

 cultivation, is crispum, a grand pot or rockery fern. , 

 The following are handsome pot plants, the smallest of 

 them well adapted for cases : — bimarginato-multifidum, 

 cornutum, cristatum, digitatum, glomeratum, laceratum, 

 macrosorum, ramo-marginatum, ramosum-majus, Wardii. 



Trichomanes. — T. radicans, the Bristle fern, re- 



