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NEW TLANTS. 
LITOBROCHIA TRIPARTITA. 
This nohlo looking Fern has been introduced from the Fcejocs. Its stout fronds are divided 
into three branches, each of which is hipinnatiddly divided into oblong obtuse segments. It is free 
growing and can bo easily cultivated in any stove. 
When exhibited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s Park, it received a First Class Certificate, 
and a First Prize at the Crystal Palace Flower Show. 
Price IO 5 . and 21s. each, 
MIMULUS REPENS. 
A pretty species from Port Jackson, with bright lilac flowers, paler on the lower lip, the latter 
dotted with deep yellow in the faux. A neat trailing plant, suitable for small vases or suspended 
baskets. Figured in the 22nd volume of Potanical Magazine. 
Price Ss. each. 
NEW NEPHRODIUMS. 
In introducing these remarkable novelties it may be as well to quote the account of them given 
in the Gardeners' Chronicle October 14th, 1865, page 962: — 
“We have lately had brought under our notice by Mr. Bull a very remarkable illustration of 
the Variability op Ferns. A crop of plants had been raised from the spores of Nephrodium molle 
cristatuniy a very indifferently ci'ested form of a very coinmou Fern, a form indeed but slightly 
removed from the normal condition of the species, from the very slight degree of development 
manifested in the crests. In this batch of young plants occurred a considerable number we are not 
informed as to the proportion — of most remarkable deviations from the parent plant. Many of them 
have the stipes and fronds repeatedly branched, and the parts everywhere densely crested, yet not 
assuming the character of K. molle corymhiferum ; this form might be called ramosissimum, and is 
analogous to the magnificent form of Filix-mas. bearing that name. Others, with more of the plane 
character of the normal state of the species, had well crested apices both to the pinnec and frond, 
and a forking of the stipes, though less developed than in the former : such a development as might 
be called ramosum. A third set, with very little of the plane portion in some cases, and none at all 
in others, bore a gi'cat glomerate crested head of crispy segments, and this form we propose to 
distinguish by the name of grandiceps, because it is fashioned after the manner of the varieties of 
our native Ferns to which this name has been given.” 
As with the normal type, these new varieties can be cultivated in any greenhouse, so that they 
are most desirable acquisitions. Several of them have received First Class Certificates both from the 
Iloyal Horticultmal and Royal Botanic Societies. 
NEPHRODIIBI MOLLE CONFLUENS. 
CRISPUM. 
CRISTATUM. 
DENSUM. 
GRANDICEPS. 
MULTIFIDUM. 
RAMOSISSIMUM. 
RAMOSUM. 
Price IO 5 . Qd. each, 
PELARGONIUM LATERIPES SILVER GEM. 
This Ivy-leaved Pelargonium is a variety with extremely pretty variegated foliage, elegant 
alike for bedding or pot culture ; the leaves are bright green margined with pure white and slightly 
zoned with pink, flowers lilac rose blotched in the upper petals with purplish crimson. 
It has been awarded numerous Certificates of merit, and is a plant that can he recommended 
with the utmost confidence. 
Price 315. each. 
