THE ANNUAL MAIDENHAIR. 
Maidenhair requires exceptional care ; but do not> 
forget that for all the care which you bestow upon 
it, it will repay you by assuming in its adopted 
home the freshest and most delicate shade of de- 
lightful green, and the most delicate of graceful 
forms. 
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THE ANNUAL MAIDENHAIR. 
G-ijmno gramma lep top hy lla. 
ME general resemblance to tbe True 
Maidenhair in the arrangement of 
frond and leaflet, has entitled the 
Slender Grymnogram to the name of 4 The Annual 
Maidenhair.’ But this very pretty plant is dis- 
tinguished from all our British Ferns by the short 
period of its existence — springing up and dying 
within the year. A tiny thing it is, only three or 
four inches in length, its fronds rising from a 
tufted root-stock, their leafy parts being longer 
than their stems, Avhich are of a brownish colour, 
and smooth. The fronds on the same plant are 
graduated in length, preserving no regular shape; 
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