CHOICE STOVE FERNS. 
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ADIANTUM ANEITENSE. 
Avery elegant free -growing 1 species of Maiden-liair Fern, introduced from the Island of Aneiteum. 
It ha 9 a creeping rhizome clothed with dark coloured scales, and divided deltoid fronds. The numerous 
segments of which the fronds are made up are rhomboidal, nearly sessile, firm in texture, with a 
glabrous surface, subglaucous beneath, and shallowly lobed along the upper and outer edges, where 
the roundish reniform sori are borne in the centre of the lobes. It is a distinct and ornamental ever- 
green Stove Fern, and was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize 
at the Great Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 1880. 35. Gd. and 5$. 
ADIANTUH ANEITENSE, 
