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enjoys more sunshine than aethiopicum , and makes a beautiful 
specimen when well cultivated. 
A. reniforme is a distinct little fern with a simply reniform 
frond ; it produces few fronds, and is only worth growing as a 
curio. 
Another group includes simply pinnate species, A. cauda- 
tum , and A. lunulatum , both interesting species but not showy. 
They are rather difficult to cultivate, requiring close, moist, 
warm conditions, with shade and sufficient drainage, and when 
proliferous from the long caudate frond-tip, they produce 
pretty little young plants there. 
A. hispidulum , a Rhodesian species, is often cultivated in 
Europe, requiring airy, moist conditions, firm soil, and good 
drainage. 
A. Oatesii, a somewhat similar Rhodesian species, has not 
been seen in cultivation. 
LONCHITIS PUBESCENS is a vigorous and pretty forest 
swamp fern, growing fronds six feet long occasionally, though 
more usually only three or four. It is easily cultivated if 
given drainage, water and shade with a moist atmosphere, 
but is somewhat fragile and requires room. It is exceedingly 
variable in its cutting and pubescence. 
HYPOLEPIS, like many other fern genera, contains species 
having little resemblance among themselves. H. sparsisora is 
the most vigorous fern of wet sunny forest glades, the long 
rhizomes throwing up fronds a foot or more apart, which 
fronds grow four to six feet high and are softly herbaceous, 
and at first hairy. This fern grows bracken-like in large 
masses, the fronds die down in winter, and in early spring 
the young fronds come up in abundance. It is easily culti- 
vated, especially if one begins with a young plant, and a large 
tub full of this makes a fine specimen. Though in nature it 
grows in swampy localities, it enjoys drainage in cultivation, 
together with regular watering and good fresh loam. 
H. Bergiana is a smaller plant, seldom more than a foot 
high, without creeping rhizome, but producing adventitious 
buds on the roots, especially where the roots come to the 
surface at the edge of a pot. This fern likes well drained 
