ADIANTUM. 



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(leafits), which have their lower margin somewhat obliquely decurved from 

 the stalks. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 118. Nicholson, Dictionary 

 of Gardening, I., p. 28. 



This variety also makes a very handsome specimen when planted out. 

 It requires all the year round a particularly liberal supply of water at 

 the roots. 



A. t. Sanctae-Catherinae — Sanc'-tEe-Cath-er-i'-naB (from Santa Catherina). 



This is a garden name — having no responsible author — for another very 

 ornamental Brazilian form of much dwarfer and more compact habit than the 



Fig, 48, Acliantum trapeziforme Sanctse-Catlwrinas 

 (A nat. size). 



species. Its deeply-cut fronds, which seldom exceed 2ft. in height including 

 the wiry, black, shining stalks upon which they are borne, are very freely 

 produced from an underground, creeping • rhizome (prostrate stem), which 

 possesses the property of producing numerous ramifications. The pinnules 

 (leafits) are set rather far apart, coarsely toothed (Fig. 48), of a dark green 



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