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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
ADIANTUM TETRAPHYLLUM GRACILE. 
A liandsome stove Fciii, sent by one of my collectors from the United States of Colombia. It is ot 
moderate stature, and remarkable for the beantiful reddish tint assumed by its fronds when -first 
devcloi)ed, and continuing until they are fairly expanded. Tlie fronds are bipinnate, on slender black 
stipes, arehing over elegantly at the top, and dividing into from 4 to 6 pinna-, ivhich are lincni-, 
parallel-sided, 6 to 8 inches long, and terminate in a long lobe which is diminished to the point. The 
pinnules are nearly equal sided above and below, the part next the racliis cut off parallel therewitli, 
and the end cut oft' obliquely. Tlie upper and less fully fertile pinnules are serrated towards the tip, 
while the pinnules in the sterile fronds are more cuiTod or sub-falcate in outline. The red colour of 
the young fronds adds very much to the ornamental aspect of the plant, Avhich is moreover of an 
elegant mode of growth. For illustration, vide page 117. 1 guinea. 
ADIANTUM TRAPEZIFORME, 5s. I ANEMIDICTYON PHYLDITIDIS, Is. 6d. 
WILSONI, 5s. and 7s. 6d. 1 and 2s. 6d. 
ANEMIDICTYON PHYLLITIDIS TESSELLATA. 
A pleasing variety of the stove flowering Fern, Ancmidiclyon PhyllUidis, remarkable for its 
reticulated variegation. It lias, like its prototype, dimoi-phous fronds, which are ternately branched, 
the two lateral branches being erect, contracted, and fei-tile, and the terminal branch leafy, spreading, 
and sterile. ^ d he latter are pinnate, witli broad obliquely ovate pinnsie. The venation of this Fern is 
reticulated in elongated meshes jroiuting towards the apex, and the course of the veins is indicated by 
a line of dark gi-een, while the areole is of a paler green. Sometimes in addition there is a band of 
pale blight gi-een along the centre of the pinna:, while the rest is either dark gi-een or reticulated. 
Introduced from Brazil. 7s. 6rf. 
ASPLENIUM BELANaERI, 3s. 6d. 
CICUTARIUM, 3s. 6d. 
FERNANDEZIANUM, 5s. 
HETEROCHROUM, 7s. 6d. 
PROLONGATUM, 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
SHEPHERDII, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. 
ASPLENIUM, of sorts, 2.s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. 
BLECHNUM BRASILIENSE, 3s. 6d. & 5s. 
POLYPODIOIDES, 2s. 6<f. and 3s. 6ri. 
CYATHEA (CIBOTIUM) PRINCEPS, 7s. 6d. 
and 10s. 6d. 
PUBESCENS, vide page 4. 
DAVALLIA MOOREANA. 
^ Ibis most beautiful Fern is a native of Borneo. The stipes are quite smooth and pale coloured. 
Tlie fionds are from 2 to 3 feet long, and from I to 2 feet wide at the base, triangular and pointed, of 
a graceful arching habit of growth, and most elegantly cut into a multitude of small blunt oblique 
soriferous segments ; their colour is a jiale green, and tliey are very remarkable for the dotted 
appearance presented by the upper surface from the prominence of the sort. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
DAVALLIA HEMIPTERA, 5s. I DAVALLIA PENTAPHYLLA, 5s. 
PARVULA, 5s. I POLYANTHA, 3s. 6d. and 6s. 
DAVALLIA TENUIFOLIA STRICTA. 
An extremely elegant free-gi'owing Fern. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
DAVALLIA (HUMATA) TYERMANNI. 
One of the most beautiful of all the Hare’s-foot Ferns, of dwarf compact habit, having rich dark 
green fronds. The rhizomes are slender, and densely clothed with large silvery white clialfy scales, 
which contrast charmingly with the deep gr-een of the fronds. 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
DIPLAZIUM ARNOTTII. 
A stout free-growing arborescent Fern from the Sandwich Islands. The fronds are of a broad or 
triangular outline, the pinna; oblong acuminate, and the pinnules of the same form and cut into 
close-set lobes, bearing the duple.x sort which are characteristic of Dijrlazium. It is a large-growing 
plant, well adajrted for clothing masses of bold rockwoik in warm plant houses. 10s. Gd. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM. 
A very distinct and interesting stove Fern, well suited for basket culture. It has widely creeping 
rhizomes, which are clothed with scales on the younger portions, and fronr which .spring the simple 
coriaceous oblong-lanceolate fronds, which arc of a deep glaucous green colour on the upper surface, 
silvery beneath, and rather conspicuously veined. An Illustration of this plant was given in the 
Gardfners' Chronicle for July 4th, 1874. 5s. 
