A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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ADIANTUM — continued. 
A. c. Edgeworthii. 
This plant, whicli is lalso known in commerce las A. 
ciliatum, is a native of China and the Himialaytas. It 
chiefly differs from the type in the smooth nature of both 
surfaces of its leaflets. Its fronds are also slenderer, 
shorter, and produced in greater tabundance; while the 
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Fig. 55. Adiantum caudatutn Edgeworthii, a lovely basket 
Fern that often shows three generations of plants in one 
individual. 
colour of their leaflets is of la bright, soft bluish-green. 
Fig. 55, for which we are indebted to Messrs. W. and J. 
Birkenhead. 
A. ciliatum. 
This is identical w^ith A. caudatum Edgeworthii. 
A. CoIIisii. 
This highly-decortative, home-raised, stove Maidenhair, 
of fine proportions and graceful habit, was, when first 
