A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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POl^YPODWJM—contijmed. 
rhizomes. The soil should be pure fibrous peat, on which 
the rhizomes should at first bo pegged down, free scope being 
allowed for their extension. 
Fig. 116. Tlie Bear's=Paw Fern, Polypodium Meyenianum, 
one of the handsomest of all the Polypodies, and by reason 
of the way the fructification stands out, the species is 
referred to as a Flowering Fern. 
P. morbillosum. 
Synonymous with P. Heracleum. 
P. musa^folium. 
The fronds of this massive-growing, stove species, 
native of the Malayan Islands, are rendered very handsome 
