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possesses several valuable characters. The plants in Mr. Bull’s houses 
are perfectly uniform in all the distinguishing points—viz., graceful yet 
compact and strong habit, with tall slender fertile fronds having a 
but it is regarded by Mr. J. G. Baker as a variety of P. crenata, or, as it 
is now termed, P. ensiformis. This species belongs to the same section 
as P. cretica and P. serrulata, but, according to the “ Synopsis Filicum,” 
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FIG. 71.—PTERIS YICTORI.E. 
central silvery line in each division, and shorter barren fronds with 
broader pinme also variegated wdth silvery lines. 
This Fern will become generally known in gardens as Pteris Victoriie, 
it is a native of “ Hindostan from the Ilimalaj'as to Ceylon, Chusan, and 
Loochoo Islands southward to tropical Australia, and eastward to Samoa 
and Fiji.” 
