GYMNOGRAMMA. 
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less plentiful in Scotland and Ireland. This plant grows 
readily in pots, and also in a Wardian case, if not too 
much confined ; for either of these modes of cultivation 
its small size and elegant aspect render it a very desirable 
object. It is, however, very impatient of root-moisture. 
This Fern has been called by several other names ; of 
which the principal are — Cryptogramma crispa^ Pteris 
crispa, and Osmunda crispa. The two latter are now 
quite obsolete. 
Genus III. GYMNOGRAMMA, or GYMNOGRAM. 
A small species of this tropical genus has been found 
to inhabit Jersey, and is thus brought — politically, not 
geographically — within the limits of the British Flora. 
The characteristic feature in this family is to have the 
spore-cases scattered in lines along the veins, extending in 
many cases below the point where the latter separate into 
branches ; so that the sori become what is technically 
called, linear and forked. They have also no cover. 
The name is derived from the Greek words, gymnosy 
