. 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. PTERIS. 283 and naked on both surfaces. The spore masses fall short of the extremity of the leafits. P. pellucens is identical with this species.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 191. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, hi., p. 243. P. longipinnula—long-ip-in'-nul-a (having long leafits), Wallich. This species, which is fo
. 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. PTERIS. 283 and naked on both surfaces. The spore masses fall short of the extremity of the leafits. P. pellucens is identical with this species.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 191. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, hi., p. 243. P. longipinnula—long-ip-in'-nul-a (having long leafits), Wallich. This species, which is found in India, Borneo, and Japan, and which is stated to occur at elevations between 2000ft. and 4000ft. on the Himalayas, is so closely related to P. quadriaurita that Baker considers it as very doubtfully distinct from that species.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 159. P. (Doryopteris) ludens—Dor-y-op'-ter-is ; lu'-dens (sportive), Wallich. This very distinct, stove species, native of Malaysia and the Philippine Islands, is of medium dimensions only, and produces, from a wide-creeping rootstock thicker than a crow's quill, barren and fertile fronds which are totally distinct from each other. The former, borne on slender, nearly black, polished stalks 3in. to 4in. long, vary in shape from triangular with two slightly-deflexed basal lobes to hastate (halbert-shaped), and have their margin entire. The fertile ones are borne on stalks often 1ft. long ; they are 4in. to Gin. each way, and are cut down into five narrow- spear-shaped lobes, one (the terminal) erect, two spreading, and two (the lowest ones) deflexed, all of which except the terminal one are sometimes again forked (Fig. 79, reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author). They are of a leathery texture, and the sori (spore masses) form a continuous line all round the margin.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ° ' r ' Fig. 79. Pteris ludens ii., p. 210. Beddome, Ferns
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