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various handsome garden forms, such as A. Daddsii, A. fragrantissimum, 

 A. Oweni, A. Waltoni, &c., all of which partake more or less of its elegant 

 habit and mode of growth. A. Moored also possesses the peculiarity of 

 reproducing itself freely by means of the little bulbils borne on its fine, 

 fibrous roots. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 474. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, i., p. 27. Moore, Gardeners' Chronicle, 1868, p. 1090. 



A. Moritzianum— Mor-itz-i-a'-num (Moritz's). A variety of A. Capillus- 

 Veneris, having long, pendulous fronds. 



A. mundulum — niun'-dul-um (neat). A dwarf variety of A. cuneatum. 



A. neogTlineense — ne-o-guin-e-en'-se (New Guinea), Moore. 



A very pretty, stove species, native of New Guinea, with fronds rather 

 sparsely produced from a short, creeping rhizome (prostrate stem) and borne 

 on upright stipes (stalks) Gin. to Sin. long and of a bright chestnut-brown 

 colour. These fronds, of an elegant, arching habit, are tri-quadripinnate 

 (three or four times divided to the midrib) and furnished with pinnules 

 about Jin. long, which are lobed and dented and set rather far apart. The 

 pinnules (leafits) are of a dark olive-green colour, with a bluish tint on both 

 surfaces, and being loosely set they give the plant a very elegant appearance. 

 The sori (spore masses) are small, round, six to eight to each pinnule, in 

 the closed depressions of the marginal lobes of which they are entirely sunk. 

 — Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 27. 



A. nigreseens — nig-res'-cens (blackish), Fee. 



A stove species, from Guadeloupe. Its fronds, borne on upright, blackish 

 stipes (stalks) Gin. to 12in. long, consist of a terminal pinna (leaflet) and 

 several lateral ones on each side, the lowest of which are again branched. 

 The pinnules (leafits) are about Jin. long and Jin. broad ; they are of 

 a leathery texture and have their point bluntly rounded and their upper 

 and outer edges finely toothed. The sori (spore masses) are disposed in 

 oblong patches along the upper edge. In general habit this plant comes 

 somewhat near A. cristatum. It may be readily distinguished from all 

 other species having any affinity with it by its pinnules, which are smaller 

 than those of any other and also of a more leathery texture. — Hooker, 

 Synopsis Filicum, p. 117. 



