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. GYMS' O GRAMMA, or GYMS O GRAM. 
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, gymnos, 
