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ONYCHIUM LUCIDUM.
S p r e n g e l . M oore a n d H o u l s t o n . J. S m it h . H o o k e r .
K u n z e . F e e .
P LA ' l 'E X X I I I . VOL . 111.
Leptostegia lucida,
CJieilanthcs lucida,
Onychium japonicum,
Onychium—A Claw.
D . D o n .
W a l l i c i i .
O f G a r d e n s .
Lucidum—Shining.
A B E A U T I F U L , slciicler-looking, y e t vigorous-growing F e rn ,
req u irin g as little management as possible, and producing a
large and handsome p lan t, if afforded abu n d an t pot-room.
E asily propagated, both b y divisions of the creeping rhizoma
and from spores, young plants coming up in all the pots in
its neighbourhood.
A n evergreen warm greenhouse or stove species.
A native of the E a st Indies and Nepal.
Re ceived at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in tlie year 1844,
from Mr. I I . Lowe.
The fertile fronds are glabrous, slender, with remote pinnæ,
the pinnules trian g u la r in form ; segments small, linear-acuminate,