THE FERN PARADISE. 
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branches ; the branches bearing fan-shaped leaflets, 
which have their edges notched. On the back of 
these lobes or leaflets are the spores. When these 
are shed, in the late summer or autumn, the Gym- 
nogram dies. The spores, thus shed, germinate, 
and the plants produced, attaining maturity in the 
following summer, again die, after producing in 
their turn the spores for the succeeding season. 
Jersey is the only habitat of the Annual 
Maidenhair. There it grows in moist hedge- 
banks. But, curiously enough, it has an antipathy 
to the shade of trees, although it likes, when 
growing in the open banks of the hedges, the 
shelter of dwarf vegetation ; sometimes choosing 
to keep company with the moss which is to be 
found in such situations. In cultivation it should 
be grown in the greenhouse, or, if in the dwelling- 
house, under glass ; and the soil adapted for it is 
light sandy loam. 
