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bud developed into a short rhizome, with several rudimentary fronds coiled up and hidden in 
the chaff. In a foot-note he adds: “The fact that a stalk may produce a rhizome, though 
perhaps more evident in the case of Dicksonia pilosiusciila than in other ferns, is by no means 
unknown. In Sachs’ Text-book (English version, p. 351) several instances are given of the 
same thing, as Pteris aquilina, which often produces a shoot from the back of the leaf-stalk 
UPPER PART OF FROND OF WOODWARDIA RADICANS, SHOWING YOUNG PLANT GROWING ON THE RACHIS. 
close to the base, and Aspidium Filix-mas , which produces buds a short distance above the 
base, oftenest on one side of the stalk. The slender stolons of Onoclea Struthiopteris are said 
to be formed in a similar way, and Acrostichum aureum and Woodwardia radicans seem to do a 
like thing. The formation of proliferous buds on the stalk of Asplenium fragile and on the rachis 
of Asplenium ebeneum, the bulblets of Cystopteris bulbifera , the scaly bud of Woodwardia 
radicans, the terminal bud of Camptosorus rliizophyllus, the numerous little buds on the upper 
surface of the pinnae of Woodwardia orientalis and of the Australian Aspidium proliferum, 
rightly regarded, are all manifestations of the same power which many ferns have of producing 
an adventitious proliferous bud from almost any part of the plant.” 
