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Choice Ferns for Amateurs, 
NKPHROLKPlS-continued. 
of a pleasing dark green colour, leathery in texture, 
strongly eared at the base, and finely toothed lat the edges. 
The curious position of the leaflets land the upright habit 
of the whole plant miake it a most interesting Fern. 
Fig. 108. Nephrolepis rufescens tripinnatifida, a graceful 
strong=growing variety equally well adapted for pot culture 
and for planting out. 
N. Piersoni. 
This beautiful plumose Fern, although catalogued as 
a species, is regarded as a form of the well-known exaltata. 
N. platyotis. 
Synonymous with N, acuta. 
