NEW AND CHOICE PERNS. 
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NEW AND CHOICE FERNS. 
ANEMIA ROTTJNDIFOLIA, 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
This pretty ornamental species is one of those popularly known as Flowei’ing' 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 pinnae are numerous and alternate, each broadly oblong obtuse, oblique and coarsely toothed. 
Wlien 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 pinnae ; erect, linear oblong with 
numerous spore cases, borne in graceful spike-like panicles. TtVc illustration, page 80. lO^r. 6rf. 
DICKSONIA (CIBOTIUM) GLAUCA. 
This elegant rree kem has been introduced from the Sandwich Isles, and in^^the young state 
will be found a striking and ornamental Feni for the greenhouse. The fronds ai'e spreading and 
bipinnate, oblong acute in outline and glaucous beneath ; pimue very numeixms, alternate and 
linear lanceolate ; pinnules curved, oblong acute, with spore cases along the margins. Tlie fronds 
are covered with rich golden brown hair. 10s. 
;P0LYP0DIUM IRIOIDES RAMO-CRISTATUM. 
