CHOICE GREENHOUSE FERNS, 
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OSMUNDA PAIilTSTRIS. 
A hamlsoine evergreen warm greenhouse Fern, very closely resembling our native Koyal Fern in its 
general style of growth, but differing in the fronds being persistent through the winter, which adds 
very much to its desirable qualities. The fronds are bipinnate, with the leaflets oblong and obtuse, 
the stipes and raches tinted of a reddish brown colour. It is a native of Brazil. Is. 6t/. ami ?.s. Gd. 
ALBO-LINEATA, 
POLYPODIUM TRICHODES (LASTBEA PTERIS CBETICA 
TENBBICAUEIS) 3s. 6<i., 5s. and 7s. Gd. Is. 6<7. 
PTERIS ABQYBEA, Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. SERBtJLATA CBISTATA, 2s. Gd. 
PTERIS SERRULATA CRISTATA VARIEGATA. 
A inctty Fern, which probably owes its origin to an accidental cross between P. scrrulata cristala 
and P . cretica albo-lineata. The sterile fronds are pinnate, with the lower pinme forked ; they are 
•sharply toothed at the edge, sometimes tasselled at the tips, and marked with a white band down the 
midrib ; the fertile fronds are similar in division but taller and narrower, with a gracefully drooping 
character, and multifidly tasselled at the apices of the pinnie. 7s. Gd. 
PTERIS SERRULATA FIMBBIATA, 5s. I PTERIS TBEMULA, Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. 
LEYI, 2s. 6(7. 1 CRISPA, 5.s. 
TODEA (LEPTOPTERIS) HYMENOPHYLLOIDES. 
This pretty New Zealand Filmy Fern, commonly called Todea pellucida, can be supplied in nice 
])lants at 2,s. 6(7., 3.?. 6(7. and 5s. 
TODEA (LEPTOPTERIS) SUPERBA. 
Any attempt at description must fall far short of conveying an ade(iuate notion of the ex(juisite 
beauty of this lovely Fern, which is umjuestionably one of the most handsome yet known. It should 
bo seen to be justly appreciated. 
The fronds, which are fifteen to eighteen inches in length, are of a bright green, of transparent tc.xture 
and of a lanceolate outline, spreading, beautifully arching and feathered down to the very base ; the pinn® 
are crowded and cut into narrow segments, which, instead of lying flat, as in Todea hymenophylloides, 
are turned upwards, giving the frond a frilled surface, and producing an effect distinct from; that of 
any Fern in cultivation. 
This is probably the most beautiful of all the dwarf-growing New Zealand Ferns. 2s. 6(7., Se. Gd. 
and 5s. Fine strong plants, 10s. Gd., 15s. and 1 guinea. 
TRIOHOMANES RADICANS. 
(THE KILLABNEY OR IRISH BRISTLE FERN). 
This is a British species, but it must, as far as culture is concerned, be included among the green- 
house kinds, as it is almost impossible to succeed with it if treated as an ordinary hardy Fern, 
(s. 6f7. and 10s. Gd. 
