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from nearly all other species on account of its producing at the extremity 

 of the fronds a solitary bud or bulbil from which the plant may be easily 

 propagated. Its very handsome fronds, 1ft. to ljft. long and 4in. to 6in. 

 broad, are borne on stipes (stalks) 4in. to 6in. long, covered with large, 

 spear-shaped scales at their base, the lower ones nearly black in the centre. 

 The numerous pinna? (leaflets) are of a very leathery texture and dark 

 shining green in colour, nearly spear-shaped, the central ones 2in. long 

 and ^in. broad ; their edge is more or less deeply lobed. The sori (spore 

 masses) are disposed in two or four rows. For the accompanying Plate we 

 are indebted to Mr. Wm. Bull. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iv., p. 15. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 127. 



A. Wollastoni — WoF-las-ton-i (Wollaston's). A variety of A. angulare 

 proliferum. 



