CHOICE HARDY PERNS. 
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LASTREA ERYTHROSORA. 
A very handsome hardy evergreen Japanese I’orn, well adapted for greenhouse or open air 
cultivation, for it is quite hardy, and the bold shining fronds are persistent throughout the winter, 
growing 2 to 3 feet high, with dark stipes, the fertile ones decorated by lines of red dots, which 
are the involucral scales overlying the spore cases. 
It has received several CertiBcates of Merit as a distinct and desirable hardy Fern. Is. Gd. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS BARNESIl. 
A very handsome and distinct normal-habited hardy Fern, with narrow fronds, short pinme, and 
broad rounded pinnules ; a most decided and characteristic variety. 2s. Gd. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS CRISPA CRISTATA. 
A very handsome British Forn, and a general favourite. 5s. 
LASTREA FLORIDANA. 
A robust-growing evergreen Fern, notable for the deep green colour of its fronds. When figured 
by Sir W. Uooker, in his Mlices lixoticcs (t. 99), not being then introduced, he remarked that “ it 
would be a great ornament to our hardy Fern gardens in England." It has a stout, scaly, erect 
caudex, bipinnate fronds, li to 2 feet long, stoutish in texture, and of a broad lanceolate outline, 
thus approaching in form to one of our finest native species Lastrea d'Vlix-mas, but the pinnules are 
of a narrower oblong form and more distant, giving a different aspect to the plant. The fertile fronds 
are very abundantly soriferous. It is a native of East Florida. When exhibited before the Floral 
Committee of the Iloyal Horticultural Society, it obtained a First Class Certificate. 2s. 6d, and 3s.6d. 
LASTREA ATRATA, lx. 6d. | LASTREA OPACA, lx. and lx. 6rf. 
LASTREA VARIA. 
This bipinnate evergreen hardy Fern has been introduced from Japan. In general appearance it 
somewhat resembles Lastrea opaca, but it has this great difference, that instead of having bright 
green glossy fronds, as in the last named, the fronds are dull on the surface, of a^very dark green, 
and when young they are of a deep red or reddish brown colour. 2x. Gd. 
OSMUNDA REGALIS, lx. , POLYSTICHTJM: ANGULARE CRIS- 
„ „ CRISTATA, lx. Gd. \ TATUM, lx. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE BAYLI/E. 
A very elegant variety of Vohjsticlium aiujulare, in which the pinnules are remarkably acute, and 
the larger ones are cut deeply into minute lobes. The outline is normal. 3x. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE CONCINNUM. 
An exceedingly pretty foliose variety, in which the bluntish pinnules are prettily and neatly 
fringed with line long marginal teeth. 3x. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE GRANDICEPS. 
One of the more choice crested forms of Potysticlmm angulare, and remai'kable for the great 
corymbose head of crispy tufts which forms the apex of the frond, lx. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE LINEARE. 
Spreading 4 to G inches wide ; with very spare, almost skeleton fronds, their ultimate divisions 
very narrow, and very unequal in size. 2x. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PARVISSIMUM. 
A very pretty, distinct, neat-growing, hardy Fern ; fronds thick, of a deep green colour, growing 
from 8 to 10 inches long, with an acuminate apex, and numerous pinnae, which are crowded with 
curiously minute pinnules overlapping each other, these latter being so blunt as to have almost a 
quadrate figure, aud so small that they do not measure more than a line in either direction. Sx. 6<f. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PROLIFERUM WOLLASTONI. 
This really noble variety has all the characters of prolij'erum, but it has wider aud longer fronds. 
One of the most handsome of the British Ferns. 2x. Gd. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE BIMARGINATO-CORDATUM. 
An extremely curious and interesting variety, remarkable for its curiously wrinkled surface, and 
so distinct that it should be in every collection of hardy Ferns. 3 j?. 6^/. 
STRUTHIOPTERIS JAPONICA, 
A fine hardy or half-hardy Pern introduced from Japan. The fronds are of a pale green colour, 
about 1 J feet high, and 1 foot broad, spreading, peculiarly short as compared with their breadth, so 
that they have a broadly ovate outline. The fertile fronds are very stout, erect, with thick leathery 
pinnae, green above, and entirely covered on the under side by the convex, glossy, dark chestnut- 
brown fructification. 7s, Gd, 
