76 ATIIYRIUM FILIX FffiMINA. 
its roots. In woodland walks, or on the shady margin of 
ornamental water, no fern can be more appropriately intro- 
duced. When grown in a pot, it requires one of rather a 
large size, and should be planted in turfy soil, intermixed 
with fragments of charcoal, sandstone, or potsherds. To 
attain anything like a fair degree of its lady-like graceful- 
ness, this fern must under all circumstances be well sup- 
plied with water." Moore's British Ferns. 
