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advantage for planting in warm Fern-cases. All require stove treatment, and 

 need a very light peaty material to grow in. 



Propagation is easily effected by division of the rhizomes (prostrate stems), 

 which are usually of a slender, wide-creeping nature. 



Principal Species. 



M. dareaecarpa — da'-re-se-car'-pa (Darea -fruited), Hooker. 



A very diminutive plant, native of Labuan and Borneo, with fronds 

 seldom exceeding lin. in length, and sori (spore masses) sunk in a deep 

 cleft on one side of the midrib, the wing which covers it reaching nearly 

 to the edge. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 121, t. 287a. 



M. graminea — gra-min'-e-a (grass-like), Schkuhr. 



A little species, also known as M. linearis, with grass-like fronds of 

 a soft, flaccid nature, seldom more than 2in. long, and sori (spore masses) 

 disposed in a line near the apex or summit, where the edges are incurved, 

 — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 122. 



M. graminoides — gra-min-o-i'-des (grass-like). Baker. 



A very small species, native of Brazil, St. Helena, and Jamaica, with 

 fronds about IJin. long, barely half a line broad, simple or once forked, and 

 with a prominent midrib. The spore masses arise from the midrib near the 

 enlarged point of the frond, the edge of which is scarcely incurved. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 121. 



M. (Pleurogramme) immersa — Pleur-og-ram'-me ; im-mer'-sa (sunk, 

 immersed). Fee. 



This species, native of Cuba, Venezuela, and Guiana, has fronds 2in. to 

 Sin. long, |in. broad, tapering downwards into an indistinct stem, with the 

 sori (spore masses) sunk in a deep, central, longitudinal cavity. — Hooker, 

 Species Filicum, v., p. 125. 



M. Junghuhnii — Jung-huhn'-i-i (Junghuhn's), Hooker. 



Though this may be considered a miniature Fern, native of Ceylon, 

 Java, the Philippines, Queensland, and the Polynesian Islands, it is the 



