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STANSFIELDS’ CATALOGUE. 
No. s. d. 
Athyrium Roth. 
155 Fillx-foemina Vernonise-cristata 5 0 
156 — Victorias M . — a splendid variety, the finest of all the crested forms. 
Mr. Moore regards it as the “ Queen of Lady Ferns,” and has named 
it accordingly 2s. 6d. to 10 6 
The most important requirements of the Lady-fern and its numerous 
varieties are , abundance of moisture in the growing season and 
partial shade. When grown in pots, they should have, at the above 
season, abundance of pot-room. Thorough drainage is of less impor- 
tance. Plant in a compost of fibrous peat, loam (in large propor- 
tion ), leaf-mould, and sand. The Athyrium Filix-foemina and its 
varieties are all of them deciduous ; they are perfectly hardy, and 
■make beautiful objects for the out-door fernery . They are still more 
beautiful when cultivated in a greenhouse, under the conditions 
stated above ; their graceful, delicate-loohing and often exquisitely 
divided or crested fronds, undamaged by sun or shower, awe then 
seen in all their loveliness. There are, we should suppose, few more 
beautiful objects in the fern world than a mature , well-grown ex- 
ample of No. 127. 
Blechnum L. (Lomaria Hooker.') 
157 Spicant Smith (boreale Smartz ) — Common Hard Fern 0 6 
158 — aberrans W. 2 6 
159 — anomalum M . — fronds attenuated, pinnae contracted, all fertile half 
way down: an extraordinary variety 2 6 
160 minus — almost membranaceous in texture, all the fronds fertile 
halfway: a small and very beautiful variety 2 6 
161 — apiculatum M. 2 6 
162 — bifidum W. 2 6 
163 — caudatum M . — less than the species, fronds terminating in long, tail- 
like processes 2 6 
164 — cladophorum M. 8 6 
165 — concinnum M . — fronds very narrow, from 12 to 18 inches long, and 
from £ to \ inch wide, lobes nearly round, beautifully crenulated on 
the edges, fertile fronds much longer than the barren, little more 
than a rachis, the lobes being abbreviated into simple nodes bearing 
the sori: a most beautiful variety 3 6 
166 — contractum M. 2 6 
167 — crispatum M. 2 6 
168 — erosum M. 8 6 
169 — flabellatum M. 3 6 
170 — heterophyllum W . — fronds exceedingly varied, some nearly normal, 
others depauperated throughout, others again, with pinnae projecting 
beyond the margin, intermixed with abbreviated and normal pinnae : 
a curious variety 3 6 
171 — imbricatum M . — frond nearly ovate, 6 to 8 inches long, lobes obtusely 
ovate, turgid, very much tiled, so as to make the frond appear almost 
double, fertile fronds very little longer than the barren : a univer- 
sally admired fern 2 6 
172 — imbricato-erectum Stansf . — this differs from the last in the frond 
being of more uniform width (not ovate but rather strap-shaped) ; 
the lobes are thickly tiled; the lobes of the fertile fronds turn back 
so as to almost form a cylinder. Its erect mode of growth and com- 
pactness render it very striking. A highly desirable fern 3 6 
173 — lancifolium W . — fronds entire for about | their length, narrow, de- 
pauperated downwardly, fertile frond longer than the barren, most 
of the lobes being much abbreviated 2 6 
174 anomalum Stansf. 3 6 
175 — laceratum 3 6 
