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CHOICE STOVE FERNS, 
ADIANTUM ANEITENSE. 
A very elegant free-growing species of Maulen-hair Fern, introduced from tlie Island of Aneiteum. 
It has a creeping rhizome clothed with dark eoloured scales, and divided deltoid fronds. The numor- 
ons segments of which the fronds are made up are rhomhoidal, nearly sessile, firm in texture, with a 
glabrous surface, subglaucous beneath, and shallowly lobed along the upper and outer edges, where the 
roundish-reniform sori are borne in the centre of the lobes. It is a distinct and ornamental evergreen 
Stove Fern, and was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the 
(iteat Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1880. 3s. 6£i. and 5s. 
ADIANTUM ANEITENSE. 
