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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



the fronds are fully developed, imbedded edgewise half-way in light, prepared 

 soil, the singular bud-growths being thus brought into immediate contact 

 with it. The pan or pot containing them being placed in gentle heat, these 

 pseudo-bulbils soon begin to increase in size, and, under favourable conditions, 

 the first fronds are produced through the process above described in the 

 course of six months or less ; afterwards the young plants require to be 

 subjected to a treatment similar to that usually given to Fern seedlings. 



Fig, 94. Pinna of Asplenium Fi/ix-fcemina Clarissimum 

 (nat. size). 



A. F.-f. conioides — co-ni'-o-i'-des (resembling Conium or Hemlock), 

 Appleby. 



One of the handsomest of all the cultivated forms with plain fronds. 

 These, quite 2ft. in length and borne on pale-coloured stalks furnished with 

 light brown scales, are broadly spear-shaped. The name of this variety is 

 derived from a resemblance to Hemlock -leaves in the outline and divisions of 



