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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
ELAPHOGLOSSUM HERMINIERI. 
This handsome acrostichoid Fern was introduced from Central America hy Dr. Seemann, who com* 
pares its long, drooping, shining fronds to clusters of silvery eels, whence he proposes for it the popular- 
name of Eel Fern. The sterile fronds are sessile, sword-sliaped, tapering gradually to each end, very 
thick in texture, with a glossy surface of an iridescent glaucous green colour. The fertile fronds are 
much shorter, 3 to 4 inches long, and oblong in outline. 15 s', and 1 guinea. 
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 from which spring the simple 
coriaceous oblong-lanceolate fronds, which are 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 
Gardeners' Chronicle for July 4tli, 1874. 7s. 6d. and 10s. 6 d. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM SUBAURICULATUM, I GYMNOGRAMMA CHEYSOPHYLLA, 
3s. 6d. I 2s. (id. and 3s. (id. 
GYMNOGRAMMA DECOMPOSITA. 
A very handsome and well-marked stove Fern, belonging to the group furnished with ceraceous pale 
yellow powder. The fronds are of triangular outline, and curving or arching in a graceful manner ; 
the pinme are unequally triangular-elongate, and the lobes deeply cut into from two to six small finger- 
like divisions, which gives the fronds a finely dissected appearance. The stipe is freely covered while 
young with the pale golden powder. For illustration, vide page 133. 3s. 6c7. and 5s. 
GYMNOGRAMMA LAUCHEANA. 
The best Gold Fern in cultivation, and liighly esteemed for decorative purposes. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
GYMNOGRAMMA PERUVIANA ARGYROPHYLLA. 
Beautifully silvered above and below the fronds, and of neat and compact habit. 3s. (id. and 5s. 
GYMNOGRAMMA WETENHALLI ANA. 
An exceedingy handsome species, richly powdered with sulphur, and having the ends of the fronds 
finely tasselled. 3s. (id. 
HEMIONITIS PALMATA, 3s. 6 d. t HYMENODIUM (ACROSTICHUM) CRI- 
LEUCOSTEGIA CH2ER0PHYLLA, 5s. | NITUM, 7s. (id. and 10s. (id. 
LASTREA QUINQUANGULARE. 
A very handsome ornamental Fern. 3s. 6 d. 
LOMARIA GIBBA. 
This is one of the most beautiful and useful Ferns in cultivation, and admirably adapted for exhibi- 
tion or decorative purposes. Is. (id., 2s. 6d. and 3s. (id. * 
LOMARIA GIBBA BELLII, 1 and 11 guinea | PTERIS, of sorts, 2s. (id. and 3s. 6 d. 
„ „ CRISPA, 5s. PLATYCERIUM GRANDE, 15s. and 1 guinea 
LXGODIUM SCANDENS, 3s. 6 d. I ,, STEMMARIA, 10s. 6 d., 
NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA, 3s. 6 d. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
PHLEBODIUM GLAUCUM, 3s. 6 d. and 5s. | 
PLEOCNEMIA LEUZEANA. 
This remarkably handsome stove Fern is of arborescent habit. The fronds are as broad as long, 
triangular, and tripinnate in the basal pinna;. The pinnules appear deflexed from being set on below 
the surface of the racliides, which thus appear raised and produce a kind of ridge and furrow appearance. 
The ordinary pinnules are cut into ovate or oblong toothed lobes, the sinuses being reflexed, which 
gives a crisped appearance to the surface. The specimens now offered wore imported from the 
Philippine Islands, but it is found also in India, China, the Moluccas, and in some of tho Pacific 
Islands. For illustration, vide page 135. 7s. (id. and 10s. Gd. 
