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unable to raise any more from the spores produced on the said plants, which 

 invariably failed to germinate. — Thomas Moore, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 June 12, 1886, p. 752. 



T. (Leptopteris) hymenophylloides — Lep-top'-ter-is ; hym-en-oph-yl- 

 l6-i'-des (Hymenophyllum-like), Richard and Lessert. 

 This very handsome species (Fig. 100), better known in gardens under 

 the name of T. pellucida, forms a thick, fibrous trunk, from which its frondsf, 

 of a very transparent nature, are produced in abundance. These fronds are 

 borne on firm, erect stalks 6in. to 12in. long, frequently measure 2ft. in length 



f/g. 700. Todea. hymenophylloides, showing Habit and detached Pinnule 



(Habit, much reduced ; Pinnule, nat. size). 



and 1ft. in breadth, and are tripinnatifid (three times divided half-way to the 

 midrib). The dark green, spear-shaped leaflets, 4in. to 6in. long and fin. to 

 IJin. broad, are closely set, and the lowest are of about the same dimensions 

 as the others. The closely-set leafits, narrow-oblong in shape, fin, to IJin. 

 long, and Jin. broad, are cut down to the midrib into simple or forked, very 

 narrow segments. This species is of easy cultivation and reproduces itself 

 very readily from ^^or&s,.— Hooker, Garden Ferns, t. 54 ; Icones Plantarum, t. 8. 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 50. 



