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CHOICE STOVE* FERNS. 97 
DAVALLIA EPIPHYLLA. 
A specially elegant Fern in the way of J), JiJxensisy but quite distinct from it. The rootstock 
is creeping and covered with brown scales from which ascend wiry piu^le stipes as thick as a 
crow-quill, glabrous and deeply clianuelled. The fronds are subcoriaceous, deltoid in outline, tliree 
to four times pinnately divided, the larger pinnre deltoid-lanceolate, the pinnules narrow, wedge- 
shaped and deeply pinnately divided. It has been introduced from New South Wales. 5«. 
and 7#. 6<f. 
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