. 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. 187 P. pellucidum—pel-lu'-cid-um (pellucid-veined), Kaulfuss. This stove species, native of the Sandwich Islands, much resembles P. vulgare (the common Polypody) in habit and size, but the veins of its pinnate fronds are beautifully pellucid, being distinct even in dried specimens. The spore masses are large an
. 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. 187 P. pellucidum—pel-lu'-cid-um (pellucid-veined), Kaulfuss. This stove species, native of the Sandwich Islands, much resembles P. vulgare (the common Polypody) in habit and size, but the veins of its pinnate fronds are beautifully pellucid, being distinct even in dried specimens. The spore masses are large and prominent.—Hooker, Species Filicum, iv., p. 20G ; Second Century of Ferns, t. 44. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, hi., p. 191. P. p. myriocarpum—rny-ri-oc-ar'-pum (many-fruited), Hooker. This variety differs from the typical plant through its leaflets being pinnatifid (cut nearly to the midrib).—Hooker, Icones Plantarum, t. 84. P. (Niphobolus) penangianum—Niph-ob'-ol-us ; pen-ang-i-a'-num (from Penang), Hooker. A distinct and very handsome, stove species, native of Penang, with the general aspect of the Bird's-nest Fern (Asplenium Nidus). Its entire fronds, 1ft. to l^ft. long and 2in. to oin. broad, are almost stalkless ; they are very gradually narrowed towards the base and somewhat undulated at the edges ; their texture is papery, their upper surface is naked, but their under-side is thickly clothed with fine, silky hairs. The spore masses are disposed in rows close together, confined to the upper part of the frond, and fall distinctly short of the edge. Fig. 53 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 52. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. Fig. 53. Poly podium penangianum (much reduced). P. pendulum—pen'-dul-um (hanging), Swartz. In this stove species, native of Brazil and Peru, the flaccid, pendulous fronds, 6in. to 12in. long and lin. to 2in. broad, a
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