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Choice Ferns for Amateurs. 
LOMARIA — contimied. 
forms a stem or trunk 4ft., or even 5ft., in height. These 
fronds, which are of la somewhat erect habit when the pliant 
Fig. 100. Lomaria gibba platyptera, a gigantic handsome 
Blechnum=like -variety. 
is still in a young state, become more pendulous as the 
specimen gets older, and tare of a very elegant, arching 
hiabit when the trunk is formed. There are many varieties, 
the most striking being 
