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be either described as awl-shaped or very narrow lance- 
shaped. The auricle for two-thirds of the frond is a 
distinct leaf, though this does not appear in the pinna 
represented in the woodcut. 
The rest of the leaflet is 
narrow lance-shaped with 
teeth inclining upwards and 
an acute point ending in a 
spine or bristle. The whole 
plant presents a very light 
appearance. The leaflets are 
bright green and shining, 
and their narrow lance- 
shaped form, with the little 
projection at the base, gives 
it a peculiarly elegant aspect. 
The mid-stem or rachis in 
many cases most neatly un- 
dulates. Bulbs are produced 
at the points where the 
pinnae meet the mid-stem. 
By these bulbs young plants 
are more easily produced 
than by sowing the spores. 
Not all the plants have these 
little bulbs. If this Fern 
be placed in a small flower- 
pot so that the roots have 
not fair play, then nature will have its perfect work, and 
the roots will arise above the surface of the ground in the 
form of bulbs. Thus we And the poet’s assertion verified, 
“Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.” — Horace. 
You may drive away nature with a pitch-fork, yet will she 
continually return. M. Hawkchurch. 
18. Wollaston’s 2nd Proliferous A. P. JProliferum 
Wollastoni No, 2. This also is a beautiful plant. It is 
sometimes called the narrowed (angustatum) proliferous 
Pern. The frond is generally narrower than in the pre- 
ceding form. Its pinnae have rather a tendency to be 
