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enough to hold the fronds well up to view, and to permit of the plants being 
handled or removed from place to place with little risk of the damage to which 
those with weaker supports would be exposed. We therefore look upon this 
plant as one of the most useful of recent temperate-house ferns for decorative 
purposes. It, has been thought to be the same as A. Wagneri described by 
Kuhn, but the ovate-lanceolate fronds of that plant sufficiently distinguish it.— 
Thomas Moore, Chelsea. 
