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of March 6, 1875, p. 302, we extract the foUowmg : " Like its congeners, it 

 is epiphytal, and protects its rootstock by the broad, roundish, imbricating 

 bases of its barren fronds. The fertile fronds, which are produced in threes, 

 issue from the growing point, situated in a notch in the side of the round, 

 close-fitting base of the sterile stem, and at once fall straight down to a length 

 of 2jft. ; they are quite narrow in all their parts, the basal portion is 

 upwards of 1ft. long, the branches are entire on one of their margins and 

 repeatedly divided into numerous lobes on the other side." We may add 

 that the whole plant is of a pale glaucous tint, and that the fructification 

 occupies the terminal lobes only. See Plate. — Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, iii., p. 158. 



PLATYLOMA— Plat-yl-o'-ma. See Pellaea. 



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