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NEW AND CHOICE TEENS. 
POLYPODIUM CONJUQATUM. 
Awarded a First Class Oortifioate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
An extremely handsome and effective Fern with long pinnately divided glossy green leaves, 
arising from a stout creeping rhizomous rootstock densely covered with long reddish brown silky 
hair. The fronds are broacfiy lanceolate in outline, the pinnce being alternate and narrowly 
lanceolate with undulate margins, the blade of each pinnse being connate with the next close to the 
stipes. The sori are borne in two rows between each of the primary veins, reaching from the midrib 
to the margin. It was imported from Queensland. Vide illustration. 2 guineas. 
POLYPODIUM IRIOIDES RAMO-CRISTATUM. 
Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. 
A handsome variety with bright green coriaceous leaves contracted at the base into very short 
stipes. It is remarkable, and varies from the type in the tips of the fronds breaking up into lobes, 
some of tho leaves bearing as many as ten to twelve segments at the apex. This Fern is 
of robust growth and valuable for decorative purposes. It has been introduced from Queensland, 
illustration, page 81. 10s. 6d. 
POLYPODIUM CONJUGATUM. 
