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CHOICE HARDY FERNS— SELAGINELLAS. 
NEW HARDY FERNS. 
LASTREA PROLIPIOA. 
A most iuteiestiug hardy evergreen Fern, introduced from Japan, and described by Mr. T. Moore,, 
in the Oardemrs’ Chronicle, December 9th, 1882, where a letter of Mr. Lafosse is (juoted in which 
the plant is highly eulogised for its beauty. It has triangular, bipinnate, coriaceous, shining green 
fronds, with the pinnules narrow, often pointed, usually with a lobe or two at the base, but in 
different plants and parts of the same plant extremely variable in their actual form and character. The 
sori are large and cover the narrow segments, and these sori are themselves covered by large persistent 
indusia, which are red in the centre and lead-coloured at the margin. 5s. 
POLYSTICHUM POLYBLEPHARUM. 
A fine hardy evergreen Fern from Japan. The fronds are of moderate size, ovate-lanceolate, bipinnate, 
with the lower pinna; deflexed, the i>innules marginate, trapezio-ovato or oblong, with a few coarse 
deep teeth. The lower anterior pinnules are considerably larger than the rest, narrow oblong, and 
deeply iuciso-lobato. The sori are numerous, and covered with thick rufescent indusia. 5s. 
CHOICE HARDY FERNS. 
Selections of good kinds can be supplied at 18s., 30s, and 42s. per dozen. 
SELAGINELLA VIOTOlilrF.. For description and price, vide page 144. 
SELAGINELLAS (LYCOPODIUMS). 
G, gieenliouse ; II, hardy ; B, stove. 
s. d. 
8 AFRICANA (Vogelii) 
. . 2 
6 
A'ALBO-SPIOA . 
. 3 
6 
8 AMCENA, vide page 16. 
8 APGS (APODA) 
. 1 
6 
8 ATR0VIRIDI8 
2 
6 
s. d. 
.S'BROWNII 2 6 
CANALICITLATA, vide page 144. 
8 CATJLESOENS GRACILIS, vide page 144. 
S COGNATA, vide page 16. 
S CONFHRTA 2 6 
