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Dicksonia (About forty species are here)

About forty species are here included. To those described on pp. 467-8, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. davallioides Youngii (Young's). fronds large, minutely sub-divided.for which we are indebted to Messrs. W and J. Birkenhead. D. Lathami (Latham's). fronds tripinnate, narrow-oblong, dark green, coriaceous, 14ft. to 15ft. long; pinnae sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1 1/2ft. to 2ft. long, 6in. to 8in. broad, with close-set, sessile, lanceolate, acute pinnules; pinnulets oblong-obtuse, more or less lobed or crenulate. 1886. A noble, stove, evergreen, Tree Fern, supposed to be a hybrid between D. antarctica and D. arborescens.