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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
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diea, to which the plant belongs, and we have 
also adopted it in the Index Filicum. The 
Lygodiea consist of two genera— -Lygcidium, 
with free veins ; and Hydroglossum, with reti¬ 
culated venation. They are very similar in 
external appearance, but are distinct in habit 
from all other Ferns in that they produce 
from the crown of the roots numerous tall, 
slender, climbing stems. 
Hydroglossum seandens is a native of the 
Society, Sandwich, Fiji and other Polynesian 
plant it would associate well with the Gleich- 
enias, to which it would form a striking 
contrast. We have recently in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle (n. s., xvi., 399) proposed the vari¬ 
etal name of Fulcheri for Mr. Green’s plant, 
which is distinguished from the common form 
of the species by the following particulars, as 
well as by its bolder and more vigorous habit 
of growth :— 
Pinnae larger (more than 3 inches long, and 
nearly 1 inch broad), more regularly tapered 
Isles, and is also found in East Tropical 
Australia. Though specifically identical with 
this, the plant now under notice, is, we believe, 
a more vigorous-growing luxuriant variety 
than that which has hitherto been met with in 
collections. This older cultivated form has 
never, within our knowledge, assumed anything 
like the luxuriant growth and ornamental 
character which marked the specimen shown 
by Mr. Kettle. In that state it is not only a 
distinct and handsome but a very character¬ 
istic decorative Fern ; while as an exhibition 
from the base to the apex, the base obliquely 
truncate scarcely at all cordately-rounded, and 
the apex acute. 
In Hydroglossum seandens Fulcheri the stem 
or caudex is semiterete and of a pale brown 
colour, producing short branches, from the 
apex of which grow a pair of fronds, which vary 
from 6 to 9 inches in length and from 4 to 6 
inches in breadth, and are made up of from 
four to six pairs, sometimes more, of subcori- 
aceous pinnae, attached by short fusco-hirsute 
petioles, with which they are articulated. The 
