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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ Novembeh, 
comparatively slender, while the stalks of the pinnules are remarkably so ; and 
this, no doubt, is mainly conducive to the pendent habit, which is one of the 
features of the plant.’ The fronds are broadest at the base ; they have a stipe of 
about a foot, and a lamina of 2 ft. in length, the lower pinnae being about a foot 
in length, with the lower pinnule on the posterior side bipinnate, so that the 
frond becomes quadripinnate. The pinnules are large, the upper corner obliquely 
overlying the rachis; the basal margin is entire and slightly concave, the lower 
side, or that towards the rachis, being also entire ; while the somewhat rounded 
anterior margin and truncate apex are cut into broadish hollow lobes, and are 
generally fertile throughout, but where sterile, are minutely serrulate. The 
terminal pinnule is larger than the rest, sharply cuneate at the base, and spread¬ 
ing out into a fan-shaped figure, that at the tip of the frond being fully l^in. 
across. The sori are about ^ in. long, sometimes considerably more, reniformly 
curved, with an entire indusium. 
“Theaflfinity of this remarkable novelty is with A. in which it is 
probable other distinct forms lie buried in books and herbaria. Nevertheless, A. 
2)rinceps is absolutely distinct from A. tenermn^ and in consequence of the first 
assuming a charmingly pendent character, it is altogether a much finer plant. 
It will make one of the finest of all exhibition ferns.”—T. Moore. 
BEDDING PANSIES AND VIOLAS. 
% plants are more useful for keeping up a display of colour throughout 
the season than the different races of Bedding Pansies and Violas, which 
are, indeed, intimately allied, all belonging to the same botanical family, 
Viola^ but the former evolved out of the improved garden forms of V. 
tricolor and its allies; while the latter, those at least of a purplish hue, partake 
more directly of the blood of V. cornuta^ and those with yellow flowers of V. 
lutea. The two latter especially are very persistent bloomers. 
The following notes, from memoranda made at Chiswick, and extending over 
the last year or two, may be regarded as descriptive of some of the more distinct 
