A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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LOMARIA — continned. 
to be deiscribed^ and those interested must refer to a 
specialist catalogue like those issued by Birkenhead, May, 
and Veitch and Sons. One of the handsomest is 
L. S. trinervis. 
This remiarkably handsom-e variety, originally found on 
the Sugar-loaf Mountiains^ in Wicklow, differs from ^all other 
known forms through the division of the barren fronds into 
three sections near the biase, where on.e liateral branch is 
produced on either side of the centnal one, which is usually 
Fig. 101. Lomaria Spicant trinervis coronans, a beautifully 
crested Fern of graceful habit. 
much larger than the lateral ones. The fertile fronds, 
which tire but sparingly produced — ^seldom more than two 
on a plant — are branched at the base in the siame way. 
Sometimes the summit of the fronds, and the extremity of 
the branches, are forked or even terminated by a crest of 
very distinct character; it is then called L. B. t. coronans. 
Fig. 101. 
L. zamisefolia. 
A synonym of L. Boryana cycadoides. 
L. zamioides. 
A popular garden name for L. Boryana and its variety 
cycadoides. 
