CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
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DAVALLIA LOBRAINII. 
A very beautiful evergreen Fern of the D. dissecta type. The rhizomes are clothed with spreading 
scales of a pale tawny brown, and produce fronds at short intervals. The fronds are triangular, 
about a foot long, and nearly as much across the base, the ape.x of the frond itself, and of the larger 
pinna; being very much attenuated ; they arc tripinnate, the ultimate segments being ovate, the lobes 
having a marginal tooth. It is a very desirable addition to evergreen Ferns, and comes fi-om the 
Malay peninsula. 1 guinea. 
DIPLAZIUM ARNOTTII, 7.1. 6d. | DORYOPTEEIS PALMATA, 3.?. 6d. 
ELAPHOGLOSSUM HERMINIERI. 
This handsome acrostichoiil Fern was introduced from Central America by Dr. Seemaun, who com- 
pares its long, drooping, shining fronds to clusters of silvery eels, whence he proposes for it the 
popular name of Eel Fern. The sterile fronds are sessile, sword-shaped, tapering gradually to each 
end, very thick in texture, 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. 16s. and 1 guinea. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM GLAUOOPHYLLUM. 
A veiy distinct and interesting stove Fern, well suited for basket culture. It has widely creeping 
rhizome.s, which are clothed with scales on the younger portions, and from which 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. 
Gardeners’ CAroniefe for July 4th, 1874. 5s. 
GLEICHENIAS, vide page 145. 
GONIOPHLEBIUM SUBAURICULATUM, 
3s. 6d. 
GYMNOGRAMMA CALOMELANOS, 2s. 6d. 
and 3s. 6d. 
CHRYSOPHYLLA, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6(f. 
An illustration of this plant was given in the 
GYMNOGRAMMA DECOMPOSITA, 3s. Gd. 
LAUCHEANA, 3s. 6d. 
GIQANTEA, 5s. 
MERTENSII DOBROYDENSIS, 5s. 
PERUVIANA ARGYROPHYLLA, 3s 6d. 
WETENHALLIANA, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. 
GYMNOGRAMMA SCHIZOPHYLLA. 
A distinct and elegant West Indian Fern, of moderate growth, with gracefully arching fronds, 
which are very finely cut, the ultimate pinnules being deltoid and minute ; the rachis is furcate at 
about two-thirds its length, where it is proliferous. 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
GYMNOTHEOA RADDIANA. 
A noble Brazilian stove F ern of the Marattiaceous order, and one of the plants included in MaralUa 
ckulwfolia by some authors. It has a large purplish-brown root-stock, formed by the imbricating 
stipuliform bases of the stout fleshy stipites, and produces ample bipinnate bright glossy green fronds, 
the pinnae of which are lanceolate, and the pinnules linear with the posterior base cordate, the anterior 
base truncate, and the apex acuminate, while the margin is distinctly serrated with sharp even teeth. 
This plant can be recommended as being of noble and ornamental character. 2 and 3 guineas. 
GYMNOPTERIS QUERCIFOLIA, 3s. 6d. 
HYMENODIUM CRINITUM,5s. and 7.i. 6d. 
LASTREA QUINQUANGULARE, 3s. 6d. 
RICHARDSII MULTIFIDA, 7s. 6(f. 
LOMARIA GIBBA, l,s. Gd. and 2s. 6d. 
LYGODIUM SCANDENS, 3s. 6t7. 
MICROLEPIA HIRTA CRISTATA, 3s. Gd. 
NEPHRODIUM TRUNCATUM, 7s. 6d. 
NEPHROLEPIS DUFFII, vide page 144. 
ENSIFOLIA, 5s. 
PECTINATA, 3s. Gd. 
PHLEBODIUM GLAUCUM, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
PLATYCERIUM GRANDE, 15s. and 21s. 
STEMMARIA, 10s 6d. and 15s. 
PLEOCNEMIA LEUZEANA, 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
PLEOPELTIS XIPHIAS, vide page 17. 
POLYSTICHITM LENTUM. 
A neat- habited and desirable Fern of moderate stature, introduced from India. It h.os an erect 
eaudex, from which the lanceolate fronds grow up somewhat in shuttlecock fashion, spreading at the 
tips. The short lanceolate, spiny-toothed piiinx are almost sessile, and are more or less deeply lobate. 
U has received a Fir-st Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society. 5s. 
POLYSTICHUM VIVIPARUM, 7s. 6<f. | PTERIS, of sorts, 2s. 6d. and 3s. Gd. 
SADLERIA CYATHEOIDES. 
A very handsome Tree Fern of moderate stature, introduced from the Sandwich Islands. The fronds 
arc bold and of coriaceous texture, the pinnos cut down to the rachis into numerous linear pinnules. 
The sori form a continuous line on each side of the midrib, in the way of Blechnum, to which genua 
it is closely related, differing technically in the fact of the veins forming a series of costal arches. This 
was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the International 
Horticultural Exhibition, held at Dundee in 1876. 1, Ij and 2 guineas. 
