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margin very much waved, almost plaited, quite in the 
style of a frill or ruffle. It should be grown in peat, 
and forms a dense cluster of a beautiful pale green and 
most luxuriant foliage. This is a very variable fern. 
Sometimes its fronds are forked, sometimes lobed, al- 
ways plaited, often fringed, now contracted, and now 
expanded, and endlessly diversified. Mr. Sim, of Foot’s 
Cray, has got a splendid collection of the varieties, — he 
has a perfect host of Hart’s-tongues. 
Adiantum pedatum. Bird’ s-foot Maiden-hair. Fronds 
situated on long blackish glossy foot-stalks, crowded to- 
gether, pinnate ; pinnules thin, oblong, obtuse, lobed on 
the upper margin, crescent-shaped. This is the only 
entirely hardy Adiantum ; it is a native of North America 
and North India; it lives very well in an out-door 
fernery, if its roots be covered with dead leaves in winter ; 
but it certainly grows more luxuriantly in a cool house. 
It will attain the height of 18 inches in the open air, by 
12 inches in breadth. It is much more hardy than our 
native Maiden-hair. 
Woodwardia Virginea . Virginian Woodwardia . Can - 
dex creeping ; fronds pinnate, ovate-lanceolate, shining ; 
pinnae lanceolate, pinnatifid, stalked, segments ovate, 
entire. A Virginian species. 
Woodwardia areolata. Divided Woodwardia. Caudex 
creeping ; barren fronds pinnatifid, glossy ; segments 
ovate, lanceolate, serrated ; fertile fronds erect and pin- 
natifid, segments linear, pointed, and narrow. A hand- 
some fern; the fertile fronds measuring 15 inches, 
and standing erect in the centre of the group ; the bar- 
ren fronds are situated around the circumference, slightly 
bending, 12 inches in length, and of a beautful light 
green. 
