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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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The fronds of this elegant fern are nearly deltoid in outline, membranous in 
texture, and quadripinnatifid in division, supported on dark chestnut-brown 
GYMNOQEAMMi. DKCOMPOSITA. 
shining stipes more than a foot long, clothed with sulphury meal at the base, 
and furnished with a few scattered pale brown scales. The pinnae are set on 
tolerably close, of a clear green colour, the pinnules close lanceolate-deltoid, the 
