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Choice Ferns for Amateurs. 
been introduced. This is a very handsome plant, 
combining the habit of a small Cyathea with the 
fructification of a Blechnum. It is a vigorous 
grower, requiring no special care, and thriving 
under warm treatment, in a mixture of two parts 
peat, one part loam, and one part silver sand, with 
abundance of moisture at all times of the year. It 
is usually propagated by means of spores, received 
from its native habitats, none of the cultivated 
plants having as yet shown signs of fructification. 
5. cyatheoides. 
This handsome plant is a native of the Sandwich 
Islands and. Sumatra. Its fronds, 4ft. to 6ft. long and 
Din. to 18in. broad, are borne on strong, upright stalks Gin. 
to 18in. long, naked except at the base, where they are 
densely clothed with long, narrow, light brown scales. The' 
leaflets, Sin. to 12in. long and ^in. to fin. broad, are cut 
down to the rachis into numerous connected, narrow leafits, 
barely ^in. broad and somewhat bluntish at their extremity. 
The whole of the leafy portion of the frond is of a leathery 
texture and of a very pieasing light green colour. 
SAGENIA. See Nephrodium. 
SALPICHL^ENA. See Blechnum. 
SCHIZOLOMA. See Lindsaya. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM. 
Comparatively few species are found in this 
genus, popularly known as Hartstongue from the 
shape of the frond of the British S. vulgare. The 
family includes Antigramme, Camptosorus, Euscolo- 
pendrium, and Scliaffneria. The best known and 
most extensively cultivated is undoubtedly the com- 
mon Hartstongue, S. vulgare, of which an almost 
unlimited number of beautiful or merely curious 
forms are found in gardens. These, through the ex- 
tremely varied nature of the outline of their foliage, 
present a wonderful series of interesting departures 
from the normal state of the plant. They thrive best 
in a compost of a light, sandy nature, made up of two 
parts leaf mould or peat, one part loam, and one part 
silver sand, and are particularly useful for growing 
by the edge of water or in shady places, where it is 
often difficult to cultivate other plants with success. 
