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WOODWARDIA RADICANS CRISTATA. 
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WOODWARDIA RADICANS CRISTATA. 
f HE typical form of this plant is well 
known as one of the finer of the large- 
growing greenhouse ferns of evergreen 
character—sufficiently hardy to stand in an 
unheated glass-house, even though frozen, and 
sometimes surviving in sheltered places out of 
doors. One of its peculiarities consists in its with interrupted fronds has long been known in 
forming a large bud near the apex of the frond, cultivation. Within the last few years, a 
from which a stout young plant is produced. much handsomer crested form, represented by 
Of this fern, a native of Madeira, a yariety the annexed woodcut, kindly lent us by Mr. 
