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Nephrolepis (To the species and varieties)

To the species and varieties described on pp. 444-6, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

N. Bausei (Bause's). fronds numerous, erect, more than 1ft. high, leafy from their base, and of a soft, bright green; pinnae bipinnatifid. 1885. An ornamental Fern, of dense habit, suitable for basket culture. Garden variety. N. rufescens (reddish). Of this ferruginous-tomentose variety there is a form in which the pinnae overlap one another and are cut down, especially on the lower side, into deep, lanceolate segments, which (in the specimen figured in G. C. ser. iii., vol. i., pp. 477, 481) are merely serrated, "but in a frond which lies before us [tripinnatifida] are again pinnatifid" (J. G. Baker). 1887. A free-growing, handsome Fern, either for pot culture, or for planting out in a warm house. See Fig. 43, for which we are indebted to Messrs. W. and J. Birkenhead.