ADIANTUM. 



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A. FergUSOni — Fer-gus-o'-ni (Ferguson's), Baker. 



An elegant, stove species, native of Ceylon, with fronds stiffly erect, 

 2ft. to 2£ft. high, including the glossy purplish-black stalks. They are 



Fig. 40. Adiantum Fergusoni 

 (J nat. size). 



tripinnate (three times divided to the midrib) and furnished with long- 

 stalked leaflets, which in their turn are subdivided into large, overlapping 

 pinnules (leafits), variable in form, but where sterile neatly toothed and 



