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The plant usually found in commerce and very extensively grown for 

 decorative purposes, under the name of S. denticulately is S. Kraussiana of 

 A. Braun. 



S. dichrous — dich'-ro-us (two -coloured). 



The plant grown in gardens under this name, for which we can find no 

 authority, is a form of S. Vogelii. 



S. distorta — dis-tor'-ta (distorted), Spring. 



A greenhouse species, more curious than ornamental, native of the mountains 

 of Central and Southern Brazil. — Baker, Handbook of the Fern- Allies, p. 61. 



S. d. major — rna'-jor (larger), Baker. 



A more luxuriant form, with stouter stems, 1ft. or more in length, and 

 often excurrent (protruding at the end), and with the leaves of the lower 

 plane also larger and spreading or rather ascending. — Baker, ' Handbook of the 

 Fern-Allies, p. 61. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 409. 



S. diYaricata — di-va-ric-a'-ta (divaricate, straggling). One of the numerous 

 garden forms of S. Martensii. 



S. Douglasii — Doug-las'-i-i (Douglas's), Spring. 



This greenhouse or nearly hardy plant, of small dimensions, native of 

 British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington Territory, is a well-marked species, 

 with pale, roundish, trailing stems Sin. to 6in. long, forked low down, and 

 pinnately branched, their lower branches being much divided. The leaves of 

 the lower plane, crowded or slightly spaced, are somewhat ascending, pale 

 green, firm in texture, blunt, and nearly flat • they have both sides eared and 

 ciliated at the base, and their upper side much overlaps the stem. The leaves 

 of the upper plane are half as long, oblique -oblong, and sharp-pointed. The 

 fruiting spikes are Jin. to lin. long. — Baker, Handbook of the Fern-Allies, 

 p. 47. 



S. elongata — e-lon-ga'-ta (lengthened). A variety of S. cuspidata. 



S. Emiliana— E-mil-i-a'-na (Emilie's). A form of S. cuspidata. 



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