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CHOICE HARDY FERNS. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS BARNESIl. 
A very handsome and distinct normal-habited hardy Fern, with narrow fronds, short pinum, and 
broad rounded pinnules ; a most decided and characteristic variety. 2«. dd. 
LASTREA FlLlX-MAS CRISPA CRISTATA. 
New. 5*. 
LASTREA FLORIDANA. 
A robnst-growiug evergreen Fern, notable for the deep green colour of its fronds. When figure^i 
by Sir W. Hooker, in his FiUoe^ Exotkce (t. 99), not being then introduced he remarked, that it 
w^ould bo a great ornament to our hardy Fern gardens in England.” It has a stout, scaly, e 
oaudex, 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, f 
of a narrower oblong form and more distant, giving a different aspect to the p ant 
are very abundantly soriferous. It is a native of Bast Florida. When exhibited before the Floral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, it obtained a First Class Certificate. 3i. Gd. 
LASTREA OPACA. 
Is. and Is. Gd. 
LASTREA VARIA. 
This bipinnate evergreen hardy Fern has been introduced from Japan. In general 
somewhat resembles Lmtvm opaca, but it has this great diflerenoe, that instead J 
green glossy fronds, as in the last named, the fronds are dull on the surface, of a very daik green, 
and when young they are of a deep red or reddish brown colour. 2«. 6(^. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE BAYLI/E. 
A very elegant variety of PolpdUhmn angnlare, in which the pinnules are^very acute, and the 
larger ones are out deeply into minute lobes. The outline is normal. New. os. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE CONCINNUM. 
An exceedingly pretty foliose variety, in which the bluntish pinnules are prettUy and neatly 
fi-inged with fine long marginal teeth. New. 7s. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE GRANDICEPS. 
One of the more choice crested forms of Polystiohum avyulare, and remarkable for the great 
corymbose head of crispy tufts which forms the apex of the frond. 2s. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE LINEARE. 
Spreading 4 to 6 inches wide ; very spare, almost skeleton fronds, their ultimate divisions very 
narrow, and very unequal in size. 2s. Gd. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PARVISSIMUM. 
A very pretty, distinct, neat-growing, hardy Fern ; fronds thick, of a deep green 
from 8 to 10 inches long, with an acuminate apex, and numerous pinnm, which 
curiously minute pinnules overlapping each other, these latter being so blunt as to have almost a 
quadrate figure, and so small that they do not measure more than a line in either direct o . 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE PROLIFERUM WOLLASTONI. 
This really noble variety has all the characters of prolifemm, but it has wider and longer fronds. 
One of tlie handsomest of the British Ferns. 2s. (ic?. 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE BIMARGINATO-CORDATUM. 
An extremely curious and interesting variety, remarkable for its curiously wrinkled surface, and 
fio distinct that it should be iu every collection of hardy Ferns. 3s. 6rf. 
