A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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AVlAST\JM—contin7icd. 
its being kept in too greiat heat and with too much moisture 
around it. It may be grown on a dry shelf with Ciactij and 
with a very little water during winter, in the cold house. 
A, ae. sulphureum. 
To Chili, Concepcion, and Peru belongs this beautiful 
dwarf, evergreen kind, popularly known as the Golden 
Maidenhair. As is the case with the Silver Maidenhair, 
the fronds of this golden one are produced in great abun- 
dance from a tufted crown, and neither of the plants shows 
any signs of the running rhizomes character istic of the type. 
The fronds seldom attain more tban Sin. in length, includ- 
ing their stalks, and are three times divided to the raehis; 
they are furnished with leafits, roundish when barren, but 
slightly notched on their edges when fertile, of a deep green 
colour on their upper surface, and thickly covered on their 
under surface with bright golden powder. It will succeed 
under similar treatment to that suggested for the Silver 
Maidenhair. 
A, affine. 
Very decorative greenhouse species, commonly known 
as A. Cunninghamii, and quite distinct from A. affine of 
Hooker. It is a variable plant, both in the branching and 
in the size of the segments, and is not likely to be mistaken 
for any other, as it is known only in the Northern Island 
of New Zealand, where it is found in damp woods at a 
high elevation. Its bipinnate fronds measure from lOin. 
to 12in. long, and are borne on stalks Gin. to 9in. long, 
and furnished with long, red scales; they have one ter- 
minal leaflet, 4in. to Gin. long and lin. to l^in. broad, and 
several smaller lateral ones, the lowest of which are again 
branched. The leafits, slightly leathery, of a dark, dull 
green above, and bluish-green underneath, are ^in. to fin. long 
and ^in. deep. The fronds are produced in abundance from 
a creeping rhizome covered with rough dark brown scales. 
The sori are numerous and nearly round. 
A. amabile. 
A garden name for A. Moor el. 
A. aneitense. 
From the Aneitum Island comes this decorative species, 
that succeeds equally well under greenhouse or stove treat- 
ment. Its fronds, l^ft. to 2ft. long, and three times 
pinnate, are deltoid in shape, and are furnished with 
numerous rhomboidal, nearly stalkless leafits, about ^in. 
long, whose inner side is close to the midrib ; the lower ones 
