. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 131 in Wedwood Forest, near Yoxhall Lodge, Staffordshire ; at High Cliff, Cheshire \ at Boghart Hole dough and Prestwich Clough, in Lancashire ; in Barrowfield Wood, near Kendal; near Durham ; in Leigh Woods, near Bristol; on Frocester Hill, Gloucestershire ; among rocks at the Fall of Lodore, Derwentwater, in
. The book of choice ferns for the garden, conservatory. and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates amd numerous wood engravings. Identification; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 131 in Wedwood Forest, near Yoxhall Lodge, Staffordshire ; at High Cliff, Cheshire \ at Boghart Hole dough and Prestwich Clough, in Lancashire ; in Barrowfield Wood, near Kendal; near Durham ; in Leigh Woods, near Bristol; on Frocester Hill, Gloucestershire ; among rocks at the Fall of Lodore, Derwentwater, in Cumberland ; above Langley Ford, near the Cheviot Mountains, and in many other places ; but invariably in perfectly cool, sheltered, moist spots where the temperature is subjected to very little variation during the summer. Of the four native species of Polypodies with deciduous foliage, P. Dryopteris (or, as it is popularly called, " Oak Fern," for which appellation there is no reason, unless it be that it is so named from being frequently found among the moss about the roots of m. Oak-trees) is undoubtedly the one most generally known and most de- servedly appreciated. On account of the peculiarly bright pea-green colour of its fronds, and of its close and compact habit, it is much admired and frequently used for forming in the hardy Fernery edges which, all through the summer, possess a fresh- ness looked for in vain among- all other Ferns of dwarf habit. These fronds, produced from a wide-creeping rhizome of a very slender nature, and borne on slender stalks 6in. to 12in. long, naked upwards and slightly scaly below, are deltoid (in shape of the Creek delta, A) and generally measure from 6m. to lOin. each way. Their lower leaflets are much the largest (Fig. 41), and the spear-shaped pinnules (leafits) are slightly notched. They are of a soft, papery texture and smooth on both surfaces. The abundant but minute sori (spore masses), of a light brown colour, are scatt
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