322 BRITISH FERNS. 
abounds on all the bogs, and is used as packing for 
fish and fruit, as we see the Common Brakes em- 
ployed in this country. 
No fern is more desirable as a garden ornament 
than the Lady Fern. The soil should be light and 
peaty, and the supply of wet can scarcely be too 
abundant: the roots will bear constant submersion 
during the summer season, when a succession of 
fronds is in course of development. In a green-house 
it should have a large pot and a deep saucer filled 
with water. The monstrous forms of the Lady Fern 
are great favourites with cultivators, some few for 
their beauty, but chiefly on account of their long 
ati es. 
80. ALPINE LADY FERN. Axpzsrne. 
Aspidium alpestre, Schkuhr. B. F. 199. 
Aspidium rheticum, Swartz. 
3 stalk short, clothed, 
but not densely, with long, hae brown, half trans- 
