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CHOICE STOVE PERNS. 
ADIANTUM ANBITENSB. 
A very elegant free-gromng species of Maiden-hair Fern, introduced from the Island of Aneitcunu 
It has a creeping rhizome clothed with dark coloured scales, and divided deltoid fronds. The jmmer- 
ous segments of which the fronds are made up are rhomhoidal, nearly sessile, firm in texture, with a 
glabrous surface, suhglaucous beneath, and shallowly lobed along the upper and outer edges, where the 
roundish reniform sori arc borne in the centre of the lobes. It is a distinct and ornamental evergreen 
Stove Fern, and was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. 'W. B. gained the First Prize at the 
Great Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1880. 3s. 6A and 6s. 
ADIANTUM ANEITENSE. 
