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CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS. 
POLYSTICHUM ORDINATUM. 
A remarkably fine evergreen hotliouse or warm greenhouse Fern, native of Mexico, and other 
parts of South America, and bearing sometimes the name of Aspidiuni Moritiianmn and Aspidium 
crenatum. It grows 3 feet high or more, is of oblong-lanoeolate outline, and a dark green colour, 
and is bipinnately divided into linear oljfong acuminate piunio, and trapezio. ovate. oblong aurioulato 
pinnules, more or less incised or serrated. 3s. 6 d. 
PTERIS FLABELLATA ASCENSIONIS. 
An exceedingly handsome oompaot-growing Fern, iutroduced from the Island of Ascension ; its 
fronds, which are little more than a foot in height, are quadripinnately divided, and have a donse, 
leafy, well furnished aspect. 
It has been greatly admired, and whenever exhibited received the highest awards that could be 
made. 7s. Gd., 10s. 6tf., and 15s. 
PTERIS QUADRIAURITA FUSCIPES. 
An elegant slender-habited Fern, a foot or more in height, having pedately bipinnate fronds, 
as in the well-known P. quadriaurita, but smaller, more slender, and more elegant in character than 
in the usual form of that species. The segments are oblong obtuse, the terminal ono caudate. The 
rachis is furnished with spiny teeth on the upper surface, while the stipes, and the back of the 
rachis, are of a dark purplish brown colour, which gives quite a distinct aspect to the plant. It has 
been obtained from the Solomon Isles, 5s. 
SALPICHL/ENA VOLUBILIS. 
A pinnate Fern, with long, broadish, ribbon-liko pinna.', conspicuously wavy at the edge, the 
yonug fronds having a rich reddish brown tint j only a few plants of this exceedingly rare Fern 
exist in this oountry. 1$ guinea. 
CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS. 
Selections of good kinds can be supplied from Mr. W. B.’s general collection, at 
12s., 24s., 30s., and 45s. per dozen. 
ADIANTtm CHILENSIS, 8s. 6 d. | ADIANTUM MOEITZIANUM, lx. Or?. 
ALSOPHILA AUSTRALIS. 
A large-growing noble-looking Fern, buyable for conservatory decoration, Is., 1.?. 6 d., 2s. Gd., 
2s. 6 d., 5s., and 7s. 6 d. j handsome specimoi 15s., 1 and 2 guineas. 
ASPLENIUM ALTERNANS. 
A very distinct dwarf-growing Fern from Thibet, something in the way of the Cetcrach officinarum, 
but it has smooth green pinnatifid fronds, destitute of scales, and is much larger in all its parts. 
2s. C d. aud 3s. Gd. 
CIBOTIUM REGALE. 
An exceedingly beautiful Fern, very romarkable from the stoms and young fronds having a thick 
silky coyei'ing of pale yellow liair-like scales. 1 and 1J guinea. 
CYATHEA DEALBATA. 
This is the Silver Fern of New Zealand. 7s. Gd., 10 s. Gd., and 15s. 
LITCBROCHIA VESPERTILICNIS, Is. Gd. | LASTREA STANDISHII, 2s. Gd. and 3s. 6rf. 
and 2s. Gd. I 
LASTREA GLABELLA. 
A dwarf and remarkably elegant evergreen Fern, with small finely-cut bipinnate fronds, ad- 
mirably adapted for a Wardian easo. Is. Gd. 
LOMARIA CYCAD/EFOLIA. 
Fine strong imported plants with good trunks. 2 guineas. 
