CHOICE HARDY FERNS. 
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LASTREA ERYTHROSORA. 
A very handsome hardy evergreen Japanese Fern, well adapted for greenhouse or open air 
cultivation, for it is quite hardy, and the bold shining fronds are persistent throughout the winter, 
growing 2 to 3 feet high, with dark stipes, the fertile ones decorated by lines of red dots, which are 
the involucral scales overlying the spore cases. 
It has received several Certificates of Merit as a distinot and desirable hardy Fern. 1$. 6 d. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS BARNESII. 
A very handsome and distinct normal -habited hardy Fern, with narrow fronds, short pinnae, and 
broad rounded pinnules; a most decidod and characteristic variety. 2 s. 6d. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS CRISPA CRISTATA. 
New. 5s. 
LASTREA FLORIDANA. 
A robust-growing evergreen Fern, notable for the deep green colour of its fronds. When figured 
by Sir W. Hooker, in his Eilices Exotica (t. 99), not being then introduced, ho remarked, that “it 
would bo a great ornament to our hardy Fern gardens in England.” It has a stout, scaly, erect 
caudex, bipinnate fronds, to 2 feet long, stoutish in texture, and of a broad lanceolate outline, 
thus approaching in form to one of our finest native species, Lastrea Eilix-mas , but the pinnules are 
of a narrower oblong form and more distant, giving a different aspect to the plant. The fertile fronds 
are very abundantly soriferous. It is a native of East Florida. When exhibited before the Floral 
Committee of the lloyal Horticultural Society, it obtained a First Class Certificate. 3.?. Gd. each ; 
30*’. per dozen. 
LASTREA OPACA. 
Is. and 1$. 6d, 
LASTREA VARIA. 
This bipinnate ovorgreen hardy Fern has been introduced from Japan. In genoral appearance it 
somewhat resembles Lastrea opaca , but it has this great difference, that instead of having bright 
green glossy fronds, as in the last named, the fronds are dull on the surface, of a very dark green, 
and when young they are of a deep rod or reddish brown colour. 2s. 6d. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE BAYLI/E. 
A very elogaut variety of Polystichum angulare, in which the pinnules are very acute, and the 
largor ones are cut deeply into minute lobes. The outline isnormal. New. 5s. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE CONCINNUM. 
An exceedingly pretty folioso variety, in which the bluntish pinnulos are prettily and neatly 
fringed with fine long marginal teeth. New. 7s. 6<1. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE GRANDICEPS. 
One of tho more choice created forma of Polystichum angulare, and remarkable for tho great 
corymbose head of crispy tufts which forma tho apex of tho frond. 2.v. Gtl. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE LINEARE. 
bpreading 4 to 0 inchoa wide ; with very spare, almoat skeleton fronds, their ultimate divisions 
vory narrow, and very unoqual in size. 2s. Gtl. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PARVISSIMUM. 
A very pretty, distinct, neat-growing, hardy Fern ; fronds thick, of a deep green colour, growing 
from 8 to 10 inohes long, with an acuminato apex, and numorous pinnae, which are orowded with 
curiously minute pinnules overlapping each other, theso latter being so blunt as to have almost a 
quadrate figure, and so amall that they do not measure more than a lino in either direction. 3s. Gtl. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PROLIFERUM WOLLASTONI. 
This really noble variety has all the characters of proliferwm , but it has wider and longer fronds. 
One of the most handsome of the British Ferns. 2s. Gtl. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE BIMARGINATO-CORDATUM. 
An extremely curious and interesting variety, remarkable for its curiously wrinkled surface, and 
so distinct that it should bo in every collection of hardy Ferns. 3$. Gd. 
