. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . to-lanceolate, erect, pinnate below, pinna-tifid and proUferous above-, the lower pinnie scarcely stalked,distant, deflexed, obliquely subhastate, obtusely oblong-ovate with a strong anterior and a slight posterior auricle, sub-crenate; the central ones oblong-obtuse falcate, adnate,scarcely subhastate, slightly crenato-lobate near the base,otherwise entire; the upper ones shorter, confluent; rachis andthe nerves beneath pubescent with minute forked hairs; soriuni- or bi-serial, the spore-cases intermixed with prominentforked hairs; ba
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . to-lanceolate, erect, pinnate below, pinna-tifid and proUferous above-, the lower pinnie scarcely stalked,distant, deflexed, obliquely subhastate, obtusely oblong-ovate with a strong anterior and a slight posterior auricle, sub-crenate; the central ones oblong-obtuse falcate, adnate,scarcely subhastate, slightly crenato-lobate near the base,otherwise entire; the upper ones shorter, confluent; rachis andthe nerves beneath pubescent with minute forked hairs; soriuni- or bi-serial, the spore-cases intermixed with prominentforked hairs; barren fronds shorter spreading with morecrowded pinna;; fronds terminal, plant resembles and is undoubtedly allied closelyto Goniopteris reptans, but it presents several markeddifferences. It is a larger ami stouter plant with lessdisparity in the character of the barren and fertilefronds, the latter being more erect, arching and proli-ferous towards the point. The upper pinnse moreoverare almost always confluent and crowded, instead of. distinct anrl distant as fhey constantly are in G, reptans;and tho pubescence of the rachis is of a differentcharacter, the hairs being short, instead of long andHpreading; boMidea this tho texture of tho plant ishtouter, Vi. reptans heini; ronniderably more lax andg Wh(:r« tr«i;n «r« t<:lt*:d by tbt) flxo without tho aKHiHtimco oflliHBaw ili« tap-rofit hi nr»m!tlnitH drawn to aconHldorablo dupthwIk^ii tlm tn-fl fallH, and whcni tho trunk provcH uuHound It willnfuiM b(j found ciiVt-rvA wllh whltomuci^dinom* HiroddH, NimiiirouHohitrrvtttlonrt Ihoriiforo miiy HonictlineH bo made without muchtrouble and with no ezpuuuo. ECONOMY OF WASPS* NESTS.[From a description by the Rev. Professor Henslow,of specimens in the Museum at Ipswich. The article,though rather long, and relating to objects which ourreaders cannot see, is nevertheless too graphic to beadvantageously curtailed.] An illustration, in several portions—presently to b
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