^ Choice Ferns for Amateurs. 
countries. True it is that the brightest tints are on 
the fronds of species and varieties requiring warm- 
house treatment; but still there are some most ele- 
gantly-tinted fronds. The genus Adiantum (Fig. 5) 
furnishes by far the greatest number of species and 
varieties yielding tinted foliage; but other genera 
contributing are BlecJmum, Brainea, Davallia, 
Doodia, Lomaria, Neplirodiuin, Osmiinda, Pellcea, 
Fig. 5. Adiantum monochlamys, an exceedingly pretty Japanese 
species, having tinted bluish=green foliage. One of the best 
dwarf Ferns for the cool conservatory or the greenhouse. 
Polypodium, Pteris, Woodsia, Woodwardia, and a 
few others. 
Attractiveness of foliage is also provided by 
variegation and cristation, the former being almost 
exclusively restricted to exotic species and varieties, 
and the latter is oftenest found in European Ferns. 
In fact, it has been very truthfully stated that there 
is scarcely a British species that has not yielded a 
crested form — the Common Bracken (Pteris aquilina) 
