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colour when mature, and of a metallic tint when in a young state. — 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 28. 



A place with a smaller amount of light than is required by other 

 varieties of the same species, suits this plant admirably. 



A. t. S.-C. Funckii— Funck'-I-i (Funck's). 



A garden sub-variety of Sanctce- Catherines, from which it differs only 

 in the more drooping habit of its fronds, the pinnules (leafits) of which are 

 more deeply lobed. — Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 28. 



A. triangulatum— tri-ang-ul-a'-tum (triangular-leaved). Synonymous 

 with A. intermedium. 



A. undulatum— un-dul-a'-tum (wavy). A variety of A. Capillus- Veneris. 



A. Yarium— var'-i-um (variable). Probably identical with A. villosum. 



A. Yeitchianum— Yeitch-i-a'-num (Veitch's), Moore. 



This very distinct and elegant, stove species, no doubt the most highly- 

 coloured as well as the largest-foliaged of the known tinted Adiantums (with 

 the exception of A. macrophyllum), is a native of the Andes of Peru. Its 

 very attractive fronds, abundantly produced from a slender, underground 

 rhizome (prostrate stem), and borne on thin, wiry, black, shining stalks 4in. 

 to 6in. long, are from Sin. to 12in. long, deltoid (in the shape of the Greek 

 delta, A), and bipinnate (twice divided to the midrib) in their lower 

 half. They are particularly upright, and are furnished with numerous 

 pinnules (leafits) about ^in. broad, semicircular on their upper margin, 

 where they are also shallowly lobed. The; round and small sori (spore 

 masses) are disposed about eight along the upper margin of the fertile 

 pinnules. The pinnules are of a remarkably bright red tint in their young 

 state, and with age change to a soft pale green : they are also of a thicker 

 texture than most Adiantums of the same section. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 473. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 28. 



A. Yelutinum — vel-u-ti'-num (velvety), Moore. 



This tall, bold-growing, stove species, native of the Andes of Columbia, 

 is readily distinguished by its stipes (stalks), 1ft. to l|ft. long, which are 

 of a velvety nature. The fronds are ljft. to 2ft. long, deltoid (in form like 



