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falcatum. This Fern has the dark shining look of 
the holly, and preserves its brightness when the 
other inhabitants of the Fernery are lying dead 
around. It is a native of South America. In a small 
hamper of Ferns lately sent to me from Otago, 
in New Zealand, I discern the early promise of 
C. falcatum, but as I have not had the opportunity 
of studying the native Ferns of Otago, I cannot be 
very positive about it, and I shall not venture it 
out of doors till I learn its inclination more fully. 
The fructification of the Cyrtomium is exceedingly 
curious. The shape of the frond resembles a leaf 
of the Berberis aquifolium, and the back of each 
pinnule is dotted over with round spore-cases in 
the neatest manner imaginable. 
There is a great deal of pleasure in tending the 
foreigners of a Fernery, particularly when they 
benignly adapt themselves to our miserable climate. 
Torn from the glories of a tropical forest, where 
their kindred tower their giant forms towards 
heaven, do they never pine for home ? Does the 
Cyrtomium never long to exchange the twittering 
