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ACROSTICHUM GARDNERIANUM.
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Flaphoglossum gardnerianum, M o o r e .
Acrostichum—From the Greek, akros—high, and stichos—order.
Gardncrictnum—Named after Mr. Gardner.
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A VERY pretty and scarcely-known species.
An evergreen stove Fern.
Native of Tropical America.
Fronds simple; sterile and fertile different, the sterile being
of a lengthy oblong, and having a pointed apex, and the
fertile ones being linear and lengthy.
Veins internal and forked.
Substance of the frond thick.
Sori amorphous, and covering the whole under side.
L ength about seven inches, of which the basal two inches is
naked.
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