CHOICE STOVE PERNS. 137 
riiis Iiamisomc acrosticlioiil Feni was iiilroJuceil from Cential America by Dr. Seemaiin, who 
compares its long, drooping, shining fronds to oln.sters of silvery eels, wliencc lie proposes for it the 
popular name of Eel Fern. The sterile fronds are sessile, sword-shaped, tapering gradually to each 
end, very thick in te.Kture, with a glossy surface of an iridescent glaucous green colour. The fertile 
fronds are much shorter, three to four inches long, and oblong in outline. 1 5s. 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 w'hicli 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 4th, 1874. 5s. 
ADIAHTUM TETRAPH\ LLUJI GRACILE. For description and price, uiVfc page 136 
