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above, and, like their short stalks, most profusely clothed underneath with 

 long, reddish, wooUy hairs. The very transparent leaflets overlap each other. 

 — Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 81. 



T. scandens — scan'-dens (climbing), Linnceus. 



A lovely, delicate species, native of Jamaica and Mexico, where it is found 

 growing on trees. Its wide-creeping rhizome is of a wiry nature, and its 

 fronds, Gin. to 18in. long and Sin. to 6in. broad, are borne on strong, erect, 

 naked stalks 2in. to 4in. long. These fronds are cut quite to the stalk, 

 which sometimes is slightly winged and hairy ; their pinnules (leafits) are 

 divided down to a narrow wing into segments that are again pinnatifid about 

 half-way down, with the margins finely hairy. — Hooker, Species Filicum, 

 i., p. 140. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 82. Lowe, New and 

 Rare Ferns, t. 62a. 



T. Seemanni — See-man'-ni (Seemann's). Synonymous with T. rigidum. 



T. Sellowianum — Sel-lo-wi-a'-num (Sellow's), Hooker. 



A very pretty species, native of Brazil, with narrow-spear-shaped fronds 

 of a bright green colour, borne on stalks densely clothed with short hairs ; 

 their oblong, blunt segments are waved at the edges, where there are a few 

 short hairs. — Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 82. 



T. setigerum — se-tig'-er-um (bristly), Hooker. 



A species of medium dimensions, native of Borneo. Its tufted, narrow or 

 narrow-spear-shaped, simply-pinnate fronds are borne on perfectly cylindrical 

 stalks 2in. to 9in. long and furnished with hair-like scales. The leaflets are 

 again deeply divided into hand-shaped leafits with elongated and very narrow 

 ultimate segments. — Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 82. 



T. sinuosum — sin-il-o'-sum (wavy), Richard. 



This species, native of Tropical America and the West Indies, is provided 

 with a somewhat strong, wide-creeping, wavy rhizome, from which the narrow- 

 spear-shaped fronds, borne on stalks scarcely 2in. long, are produced. The 

 leaflets are cut down to a broadly-winged rachis ; they are of a bright green 



