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Choice Ferns for Amateurs. 
TODEA — continued. 
species is of easy cultivation and reproduces itself very 
readily from spores. 
T. pellucida. 
Synonymous with T. liymenophylloides. 
T. plumosa. 
A very pretty seedling, raised in Messrs. J. V-eitch and 
Sons' nursery, where a considerable number of plants of 
identical character, but differing from the supposed parent, 
Fig, 121. Todea superba, a plant that merits its specific 
name. It is an excellent one for exhibition.' 
have been obtained from a sowing of T, superha. It is 
of dwarf, compact habit, and of a pale green colour when 
young. The surface of the fronds is moderately bristly 
with the small, erect segments, as in T, intermedia, but 
the fronds are shorter and more egg-shaped, and the stalks 
are also wanting in the woolly nature which is peculiar to 
that plant. 
T. rivularis. 
Synonymous with T. harhara. 
