. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. OPHIOGLOSSUM. 27 Tropical America, from Cuba to Peru and South Brazil; in Polynesia, the Malayan and the Philippine Islands ; in the East Indies as far north as the Himalayas, on the Gruinea Coast, in Zambesi Land, in Cape Colony, &c. Its fronds, 6in. to 12in. long, of a thin texture, with d
. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. OPHIOGLOSSUM. 27 Tropical America, from Cuba to Peru and South Brazil; in Polynesia, the Malayan and the Philippine Islands ; in the East Indies as far north as the Himalayas, on the Gruinea Coast, in Zambesi Land, in Cape Colony, &c. Its fronds, 6in. to 12in. long, of a thin texture, with distinct veins and usually no midrib, have their barren division placed near the middle ; this portion, which shows distinctly heart-shaped lobes at its base, is blunt or nearly so at its summit, and measures 2in. to oin. in length and l^in. to 2in. in breadth. The fertile spike, lin. or more in length and borne on a slender peduncle 2in. to 4in. long, much overtops the barren portion of the frond.—Hooker and Greville, Icones Filicum, t. 20. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 500. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 70. O. tuberosum — tu-ber-o'-sum (tuberous). Synonymous with 0. bulboswn. O. Yulgatum — vul-ga'-tum (common), Linnaeus. This, the common Adder's- tongue (Fig. 8), has a most extensive habitat, for while it is a well-known British Fern, it also occurs from Lapland to Japan and the Hima- layas ; in the Azores, on the Guinea Coast, in St. Helena, Cape Colony, Australia, New Zealand, Temperate North America, &c. Eaton, in " Ferns of North America," says, " The common Adder's-tongue is commonest in low meadows, but sometimes found also on dry hill-sides, from Canada and New England to Texas and Arizona ; also in Alaska, Europe, Western Asia, Madeira, and the ;. f/g. fi. Ophioglossum vulgatum, showing Creeping Rhizome and Barren and Fertile Fronds (i nat. size).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page im
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