NEW AND CHOICE FERNS. 
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NEW AND CHOICE FERNS. 
ANEMIA ROTTINDIFOLIA. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
This pretty ornameutal species is one of those popularly known as Flowering Ferns. It is of 
tufted habit with spreading barren fronds and erect fertile ones. The stalks are at first coarsely 
hairy, subsequently becoming glabrescent ; sterile fronds oblong, ending in a long curled tendril. 
The pinns are numerous and alternate, each broadly oblong obtuse, oblique and coarsely toothed. 
When young the fronds are pinkish bronze, turning to green as they become mature. The fertile 
fronds are in pairs, arising from between the basal pair of pinnie ; erect, linear oblong with 
numerous spore cases, borne in graceful spike-like panicles. Vid^ illustration, page 80. 10s. 6d. 
DICKSONIA (CIBOTIUM) GLATJCA. 
This.clegant Tree Fcni has been introduced from the Sandwich Isles, and in the young state 
will be found a striking and ornamental Fern for the greenhouse. The fronds are spreading and 
bipinnate, oblong acute in outline and glaucous beneath ; pinnae vei*y numerous, alternate and 
lineal’ lanceolate ; pinnules curved, oblong acute, with spore cases along the margins. The fronds 
are covered with rich golden brown hair. 10s. 6d. 
POLYPODIFM IRIOIDES RAMO-CRISTATUM. 
