GOLD AND SILVER TERNS. 



The Mountain Parsley is a very desirable plant for a 

 Wardian ease or pot culture. It requires a little care in 

 the cultivation, or it is apt to damp off " from too muclf 

 moisture at the roots ; but with proper attention to drain- 

 age, and elevating the crown a little above the surface to 

 prevent the settling of water around it, no difficulty is 

 experienced. The fronds appear in May, and disappear 

 with the early frosts of autumn. 



GOLD AND SILVER FEBNS. 



Clusters of spore-cases elongated and naked. 



The beautiful G-old and Silver Ferns of warm climates, 

 so much admired in our conservatories, have one solitary 

 representative in these uncongenial climes, and even this 

 is confined to the island of Jersey, being politically, rather 

 than geographically, British. 



The genus Gymnogramma (which means literally 

 " writing ") contains some of the most delicate and grace- 

 ful of ferns, which, from the silvery whiteness or golden 

 yellow of the under side of their fronds, are popularly 

 known as Grold and Silver Ferns. In this group, although 

 the clusters of spore-cases are naked and uncovered, as 

 in the Polypodies and the Parsley Pern, they differ in 

 one important feature : that the clusters of spore-cases are 

 long and line-like, and not circular, as in the other groups 

 just named. 



As might be expected, there are a number of species 

 of these ferns which are almost constantly confined to 

 tropical countries, but the Jersey Pern, an exception to 

 this rule, is a native of Southern Europe. 



THE JEESET PEEN.* 



Doubts may be entertained whether this species should 

 have been included as British at all, since it has only 

 occurred in the island of Jersey. The station being thus 



• Gymnogramma leptophylla, Desy. 



