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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



G. f. lanata— la-na'-ta (woolly), Kiotzsch. 



This variety difters from tlie above species through its larger pinnules 

 or lobes, which are less woolly beneath ; and also on account of its lower 

 pinnules being bluntly lobed half-Avay do^Yn. — Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, ii., p. 104. 



G. (Eugymnogramme) flabellata— Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; fla-bel-k'-ta 

 (fan-shaped). Hooker. 

 A stove species, of medium size, native of the Andes of Ecuador. Its 

 curious fronds. Sin. to 12in. long and fiin. to 2in. broad, are borne on 

 wiry stalks Sin. to 4in. long, of a dark chestnut-brown colour and glossy ; 

 they are composed of leaflets lin. to l^in. long and Jin. to ^in. broad, which 

 have their lower pinnules (leafits) stalked, as broad as long, fan-shaped, and 

 deeply cut into oblong- blunt lobes. The sori (spore masses) are disposed 

 one to each lobe, and become confluent in the centre of the pinnules. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 134. 



G. (Eugymnogramme) flexuosa— Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; flex-u-o'-sa 

 (wavy), Desvaux. 



A strong-growing, stove species, of scandent (climbing) habit, native of 

 Central America, its habitat extending from Nicaragua to Peru. The fronds, 

 3ft. to 4ft. long and tri- or quadripinnate (three or four times divided to the 

 midrib), are borne on glossy, slender stalks Gin. to 18in. long and of a 

 chestnut-brown colour ; their rachises (stalks of the leafy portion) are zigzag 

 and branched. The leaflets, nearly triangular in outline, are reflexed (thrown 

 back), and show some fan-shaped segments, with very narrow divisions of 

 firm, papery texture, each of them bearing a solitary oblong sorus (spore mass). 

 — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 129. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, 

 ii., p. 104. 



G. (Eugymnogramme) Gardner!— Eu-gym-nog-ram'-me ; Gard'-ner-i 



(Gardner's), Baker. 

 A stove species, native of Brazil, and very distinct in outward appearance 

 through its fronds, borne on chestnut- coloured, hairy stalks 6in. to 12in. long, 

 being deltoid and tripinnatifid (in shape of the Greek delta, A, and three times 



