ASPLENIUM. 



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midrib. See Fig. 103. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 143. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 131. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, 

 v., t. 43b. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 136. 



A. formosum soon becomes a favourite with the Fern-lover. It is 

 a species which does not like loam, but which is greatly benefited by a little 

 crock-dust being added to the mixture of peat and sand. 



Fig. 104. Asp/enium fragrans fceniculaceum 

 (\ nat. size). 



A. (Euasplenium) fragile— frag'-il-e (tender), Presl. 



A dwarf, greenhouse species, native of Mexico and Peru, and very closely 

 resembling A. viride in habit and texture, but with fronds sometimes pro- 

 liferous at their extremity. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 145. 



A. (Euasplenium) fragrans— fra'-grans (fragrant), Swartz. 



A very handsome, stove species, native of Tropical America, from Mexico 

 and the West Indies to Peru and Brazil. Its fronds, of a leathery texture 



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