CHOICE STOVE FEENS. 
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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
Mr. William Bull’s general collection of these elegant decorative 
plants is of considerable extent, and comprises kinds that are moderate in 
price, as well as many that are extremely rare and unique. 
Selections for the Stove can he supplied at 18s., 30s. and 4.2s. per dozen. 
ADIAETUM ANEITENSE. 
A very elegant frco-gro-iWng species of Maiden-hair Fern, introduced from the Island of Aneiteum. 
It has a creeping rhizome clothed with dark coloured scales, and divided deltoid fronds. The numerous 
segments of which the fronds are made up are rliorahoidal, nearly sessile, tinn in textxire, with a 
glabrous sxirface, 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 ever- 
green Stove Fern, and was one of the twelve New Plants with w'hich Mr. W. B. gained the Fii'st Prize 
at the Great Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1880. 3s. 6d. and os. 
ABIANTTIM axab:i.e, 2s. 6rf. 
Babsei, ;i.v; (Sd. 
DBELEM, 3s. Bd. 
CAP.DIOCIIl.AiXA, 3s. 6d. 
ciLiATUir, 3s. 6d. 
coxciNxiTM, Is. 6d. and 2s. Gd. 
i..iTL’ir, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
cyavATuir, 3s. Gd. 
DOLABEIEOIUIIS, 3s. 6c?. 
ADIANTUM P.UILEYEXSE, 2s. Grf., 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
FARLEYEXSE ALOICOEXE, OS. 
Giiiesbeegiitii (scutum), 3s. Gd. 
Latiiomii, 3s. Gd. 
Legeaxdii, 3s. Gd. 
LUXDI.ATUM, 3s. Gd. 
MACROniYLLUM, 3s. Gd. 
PEXTADACTYLOX,' 3s. Gd. 
ADIANTUM OBLiaUUM MINUS. 
An elegant dwarf evergreen Stove Fern from the United States of Colombia. It has a creeping 
rhizome, thickly furnished with pinnate frohd.s, which have blackish stipes, and a lamina composed 
of shortly-stalked pinnro, curved upwards at the point, which is acuminate. In the sterile fronds 
the pinnse are inciso-dentate, the fertile ones bear close set, but distinct oblong sori. 10s. Gd. 
ADIANTUM PEnuviANUM, 3s. Gd. and os. 
WIIOXOPIIYLLUM, 3s. Gd. 
EHODOI’IIYLLUM, OS. 
RUBELLUM, 3s. Gd. 
SAXCTA5 Catiieeina!, 3s. Gd. 
SPECIOSUM, OS. 
TEXEEIIM, 2s. Gd. 
TETRAPUYLLUM OmTCTLE, 7s. Gd. 
'tixctum; 3.S. Gd. 
TRAPEZIPOliME, 3s. Gd. 
ViCTORI/E, 3s. Gd. 
ANEMEDICTYON PirYLiiTinrs, Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
PlIYI.I.ITIDIS TESSELLAT.l, OS. 
iNGIOPTERIS Bi-ECTA. 
CHEILANTHES 
ANTIGRAMMA brasii.iexsis, 7s. Grf. and 10s. Gif. 
ASPIDIUM TRIFOLIATUM, 2s. Gif. and 3s. Gif. 
ASFLENIUM al.\tum, 3s. Gif. 
Belanoeri, 2s. Gd. 
CICUTARIUM, 2s. Grf. 
FERNAXDEZIAXUM, 3s. Gif. 
IIETEROOHROUM, OS. 
H00KF.EI.VXUM, 3s. Gif. 
PROLOXQATUM, 3s. Gif. and .is. 
Shepueedii, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gif. 
VIVIPARUM, 3s. Gd. 
BLECHNUM nR.vsir.iEXSE, 3s. Gif. 
IXTEEMEDIUM, 3.V. Gif. 
POLYPODIOIDE3, 2s. Gif. aud 3s. Gif. 
CHLOROPHYLLA. 
A free-growing cool Stove Fern, imported from Brazil. The fronds are ovate lanceolate tripin- 
natiiid, the pinna; distant lanceolate, the pinnules lanceolate, and the lobes entire linear oblong. 
The stipes arc dark chestnut-brown aud polished. 5s. and 7s. Gif. 
CHEILANTHES eleoaxs, 2s. Gif. and 3s. Gif. I CIBOTIUM SciiiEnEi, os. aud 7s. Gif. 
HiETA Ellisevxa, 3s. Gif. | CYATHEA (Cibotium) peixceps, ride page 123. 
DAVALLIA FffiNICULACEA. 
A charming evergreen Stove Fern, introduced from the Fiji Islands. It forma a short, thick, 
decumbent caud ex, from which arise the finely cut fronds, which are from 11 to 2 feet high, and 
about 9 inches or a foot broad in the full)' developed state ; they are lanceolate iu outline, ixuadri- 
Ijiunate, of stout herbaceous texture, the ultimate segments cut down to the rachis into undivided 
or forked divisions, which are quite narrow, about equalling the rachis itself in breadth. These 
lateral segments bear a few half-cup-shapod or short boat-shaped indusia, in which the spore 
cases are dev'oloped. Fronv its distinct and evergreen habit, and its graceful finely-cut fronds, this 
Fern will be found a decided acquisitiou. It has been awarded two First-class Certificates. 
1 guinea. 
