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CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
LITOBROCHIA UNDULATA. 
A very handsome largo-growing evergi'een Peim, from the Fiji Islands, related to Litohrochia 
comans, but remarkably distinct and cifeotive from tbo well-marked undulation of its fronds. It 
grows 3 feet or upwards in height, and has dark castaneous stipes and raohides, triangular or rather 
pentangular pinnate frends, and lanceolate pinnas, divided into oblong-ensiform acuminated and 
strongly undulated segments, which are connected by a broad wing on each side the secondary 
rachis ; the lower pinnse are deorsely branched, and the upper ones are deeurrent, the uppermost 
pair being confluent with the tapering deeurrent base of the terminal pinnm. 7s. 6d. 
LOMARIA GIBBA. 
This is one of the most beautiful and useful Ferns in cultivation, and admirably adapted fer 
exhibition or decorative purposes. Is., Is. Gd., and 2s. 6d. 
LOMARIA GIBBA BELLI. 
A handsomely crested and tasseled variety of Lomaria gibha, exceedingly strikiiig and attractive 
either for exhibition or the decoration of the conservatory. 1 and 1 J guineas. 
LYGODIUM SCANDENS. 
Nice little plants of this pretty climbing Fern. 2s. 6d. 
NOTHOCHL/ENA CANDIDA. 
A charming little Silver Fern from Central America, of small neat growth, farinaceous on both 
the upper and under surface of the fronds. 5s. 
PHEGOPTERIS SANCTA. 
A very neat-growing Fern, of dwarf habit, with bipinnate fronds of narrow outline ; a most 
elegant easily cultivated little plant. 2s. 6d. 
PLATYLOMA CALOMELANOS. 
A very attractive Fern j the fronds glaucous underneath, and silvery on the upper surface. 
3s. 6d. and 6s. 
POLYSTICHUM ORDINATUM. 
A remarkably fine evergreen hetheuso or warm greenhouse Fern, native of Mexico, and other 
parts of South America, and beai’ing sometimes the name of Asjndium Moritzianum and Aspidium 
crenatum. It grows 3 feet high or more, is of oblong-lanceolate outline, and a dark green colour, 
and is bipinnately divided into linear' oblong acuminate pinna), and trapezio-ovate-oblong aurioulato 
pinnules, more or less incised or serrated. 3s. Gd. 
PTERIS FLABELLATA ASCENSIONIS. 
An exceedingly handsome oompact-gro'wing Fern, introduced from the Island of Ascension ; its 
fronds, which are little more than a foot in height, are quadripinnately divided, and have a dense, 
leafy, well-furnished aspect. 
It has been greatly admired, and whenever exhibited received the highest awards that ceuld be 
made. 7s. Gd., 10s. 6d., and 16.s. 
PTERIS QUADRIAURITA FUSCIPES. 
An elegant slender-habited Fern, a feet or more in height, having pedately bipinnate fronds, 
as in the well-known P. qiiadriaurita , but smaller, more slender, and more elegant in character than 
in the usual form of that species. The segments are oblong obtuse, the terminal one caudate. The 
rachis is famished with spiny teeth on the upper surface, while the stipes, and the back of the 
rachis, are of a dark purplish brown colour, which gives quite a distinct aspect to the plant. It has 
been obtained from the Solomon Isles. 5s. 
SALPICHL/CNA VOLUBILIS. 
A pinnate Fern, with long, broadish, ribbon-like pinnse, conspicuously wavy at the edge, the 
young fronds having a rich reddish brown tint ; only a few plants of this exceedingly rare Fern 
exist in this country. 14 guineas. 
