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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



where it is said to grow on branches of trees. It is provided with a rhizome 

 of a particularly stout nature, and densely clothed with narrow, crisped scales 



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Fi^. 51. Polypodium Meyenianum 

 (much reduced). 



^in. long and of a bright rusty-brown colour. From these singular-looking 

 rhizomes are produced fronds 2ft. to 3ft. long and Sin. to 12in. broad ; their 



