XIPHOPTERIS SERRULATA (GRAMMITIS.)
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Acrostichum serrulatum,
Qr'ammitis serrulata.
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Xiphopteris—From th e Greek, Sword Fern. Serrulata—Saw-edged.
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A M O S T singular little F e rn ; rare in cultivation.
An evergreen stove species.
Native of the West Indies, and imported from Jamaica.
The barren and fertile fronds different, the latter longer,
and the apices, which alone are fertile, a little flattened out
in breadth; the soriferous p a rt of the fertile frond minute.
Rhizoma tufted, spreading by its filiform stolons, by which
means it is increased.
Length of sterile frond one inch and a half; of fertile
frond three inches; width one sixteenth of an inch.
For fronds my thanks are due to Mr. R. Sim, of Foot’s Cray,
Kent.
