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beautiful to look into, b u t tliey are intellectual ornaments.
Of late years tlio drawing-room amusements, consequent upon
discovery, kave taken a higlier tone. Hundreds of miles away
from the ocean we can exhibit the various species of sea
anemone, orabs, star-fish, and other denizens of th e salt water.
Thousands of miles away from th e native rocks and woods of
New Zealand, or of the Bast and We st Indies, as instances,
we can grow the 'Eijmenojjhyllums and Trichomanes. As
advancement takes place in science, we feel an advantage in
bringing its interesting features as much as possible before our
eyes: it is thus th a t Borns have become so deservedly popular.
Many varieties of exceeding beauty have been added to the
Berns of the British Isles, b n t th e ir number is so great th a t
it would have swollen the “ New and Rare Be rns” beyond
the ordinary limits of such a work to have described them
all; they have, therefore, been reserved for the pages of “ Our
Native Berns.”
Tho object had in view in venturing to publish the “ British
and Bxotic Berns,” was to give a pictorial illustration of each
species th a t was to bo found in our gardens and in onr h o thouses,
so th a t the cultivator might ascertain without much
trouble to himself, whether the name he used was rig h t or
wrong. In order to render this ta sk bo th easy .and useful,
■ the index of refcronoe of synonymes has been made as full as
possible, the eight volumes and th e addenda containing five
thousand six hundred and sixty-eight references. The work
has been both difficult and tedious, and whatever imperfections
may have crept into its pages, still the author has had the
satisfaction of finding it has done some good, inasmuch as the
plants ill our private gardens are now more correctly named
than was the case before there were coloured plates within tho
reach of gardeners to which to refer them.
Olservatory, Bcesfon, May 27f/i., 1862.
NEW AND RAKE FERNS.
ONYCIIIUM AURATUM.
K a u l f u s s . H o o k e r . M o o r e .
P L A T E I .
Lomaria aurea,
“ ca ru ifo lia ,
“ deromposita,
AUosorus auratus,
P te r is chrysocarpa,
W a l l i c h .
W a l l i c h .
D o n P
P r e s l .
H o o k e e a n d G e e v i l l e .
D e s t a u x .
O m j cU u m S K m o n y x -z . daw, ia reference to the shape of the lobes.
A u ra im n—GoMoa, in reference to th e colour o f the mvolncres.
A n e v e r g r e e n s to v e s p e c ie s , a n d v e r y h an d som e .^
Native of the E a st Indies, Malay Islands, Manilla, Luzon,
Java, Bootan, Nepal, and Khasya.