146 CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS. 
LASTREA ARISTATA VARIEGATA. 
One of the most charming of greenhouse variegated Ferns. It has the same kind of firm leathery 
fronds as the type, and like it is of a rich dark fnll green colour, which sets olf to much advantage the 
distinct variegation consisting of a well-defined band of pale yellowish green running down the centr e 
of the pinnar and including the midrib or rachis. It was one of the twelve New Plants with which 
Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the Provincial Show of the Boyal Horticultural Society, held at 
Preston, in 1878, 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6(7. 
LASTREA ARISTATA VARIEGATA. 
