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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
ADIANTUM LINDENI. 
Adiantums rank as one of the handsomest sections among Perns, and this takes a feremost place 
in its class. It has been introduced from the Amazon, and hence requires to bo cultivated in a 
stove ; it has tripinnate pentangular fronds, and largo oblong dimidiate deorsely-faloato pinnules, 
with reniform sori. 1 guinea. 
ADIANTUM PENTADACTYLON. 
A very beautiful and elegant variety, of strong and vigorous growth, and easily cultivated. 3s. Sil^ 
and 5s. 
ADIANTUM SEEMANNI. 
A very fine stove Pern, with bold pinnate fronds, which in their early stages are suffused with a 
reddish purple tint, as if stained with red wine. In the seedling plants the fronds are ovate^ 
acuminate, cordate at the base, and strongly serrated. In the more mature state the fronds are 
pinnate (sometimes the lower pinnas aro divided), with a few broad ovate, acuminate, unequal-sided 
pinnaj, bearing on the margins a series of elongated sori, and attached by black polished stalks an 
inch long. It is related to -I. and A. miterophijllum ; and has been lately introduced from 
Central America by Dr. Seemann, after whom it was named some years since by Sir W. Hooker. It 
is figured in Hooker's Species Filieum, and has received a First Class Certificate from the Floral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 15*’. 
ADIANTUM VELUTINUM. 
A noble species from Columbia, remarkable for the large size of its fronds, which aro suprade- 
oompound, the ultimate pinnules deorsoly-falcate and somewhat acuminate, and the sori oblong, 
reniform, situated at the edge of the pinnules. A striking peculiarity of this plant is, that the rachis, 
especially on the upper surface, is clothed with a felt of white-brown cobwebby hairs, which gives 
it a pale velvety appearance. The same appearance is continued, though in a less degree, through- 
out the stipes. 15s. and IJ guineas. 
ALSOPHILA GLAUCA (CONTAMIN ANS). 
A large-growing remarkably handsome Pern from the Philippine Islands ; fine for e.\hibition pur- 
poses. 1 and IJ guineas. 
ANEMIDICTYON PHYLLITIDIS. 
A very useful and effective flowering Pern. Is. Gu'. and 2s. (ul. 
ANEMIDICTYON PHYLLITIDIS LINEATA. 
This novel form of the limited and interesting class of flowering stove Ferns resembles A.Pkylli- 
tidis in general character, but has a pale yellowish green band down the centre of the pinnse, which 
gives it a variegated appearance. An elegant plant, growing 21 feet high, with the sterile pinnm 
obliquely oblong-acuminate, and the fertile spikes ns in A. Pki/llitidis. It is a native of South 
America. 6.«. 
ASPLENITTM BELANGERII, 2.v. 6(/. I ASPLENIUM CICtrTAEIUM, 2.S. Grl. 
,, BULBIFERUM, l.f. 6(1. I „ SHEPHERDII, l.v. 6rf. & 2». Od. 
ATHYRIUM COSTALE DISSECTUM. 
A fine deciduous Indian Peru, with fronds 2 to 2J feet high, oblong-lanceolate in outline, bipin- 
nately divided, and furnished with numerous obliquely ovate pinnules, which are stalked, and from 
their obliquity resemble those of some of the more divided stalks of Folystichum anrjulare ; these 
pinnules are deeply divided at the base, almost to the mid-vein, into oblong lobes, which are prettily 
toothed along the margin, and of which the basal anterior one is the largest, resembling an enlarged 
auricle. Ss. Gd. 
ATHYRIUM PROLIFERUM. 
A graceful Indian species, with fronds of elongate linear-lanceolate form and pendant habit, 
bearing young plants at the extremities. The piunoo are short, with short blunt oblong-toothed 
pinnules. It forms a very neat plant for suspended baskets or vases. 
It has received First Class Certificates both from the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic 
Societies. 7s. Gd. 
