BRITISH FERNS AND THEIR WILD 8POJRT8. 



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displayed of the great majority of the British species, some of which 

 have yielded hundreds of distinct types to the fern-hunter. Finally, as 



Fig. 31. — Athyrioi filix-fcemixa, var. Victoria. 



regards the slides, I show a few examples of the results obtained from 

 these wild finds by selective culture, and it is very noteworthy in this 

 connection that the finest of these have exhibited the wonderful results 



