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it was thought inadvisable to describe it until it had 

 attained to its full character. It has now grown into a 

 fine plant, and, though it will probably never attain to the 

 stature of cvistatum, Hawkins (which is practically as large 

 as the species), it surpasses it in size of cresting, and at 

 least equals it in neatness of make and perfection of detail. 

 The crests, both terminal and lateral, are round and mossy, 

 and the fronds of perfect symmetry. The habit is some- 

 what that of a grandiceps, but, as the frond is widest in 

 the middle instead of across the crest, it does not quite 

 come into that section. The pinnules have the peculiar 

 thorny character of the best forms of grandiceps, and 

 altogether it is one of the very best crested angulares ever 

 found. The name, corymbiferum, fits it exactly, and it is 

 probably the first of this type which has been found wild 

 in this species. I congratulate the finder upon a most 

 happy discovery and an important addition to our wealth 



of beautiful British ferns. ^ ^ XT 



F. W. Stansfield. 



October 18th, 1916. 



FRONDS AND LEAVES. 



To the popular mind the fronds of ferns and the leaves 

 of decorative foliage plants generally are regarded as of the 

 same character, but there are fundamental differences 

 between them. In the first place, foliage plants, other than 

 ferns, all bear flowers in some shape or other, although, as 

 in the palms, they rarely appear on what may be termed 

 domestic specimens, and in such plants as the ubiquitous 

 aspidistra they are likely to be overlooked, owing to their 

 Appearance round the edge of the pots instead of in the 

 usual place. 



Spore Heaps on Fronds. 



With ferns, on the other hand, flowers are never visible, 

 at any rate, to the naked eye, and all we can detect in this 



