. 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. PLA TYCERIUM. 79 of broad, blunt segments (Fig. 30) of a spongy texture and pale green colour, covered whe nyoung with a light, woolly substance, which gradually disappears as the frond becomes mature. The fertile fronds, 4ft. to 6ft. long and of a pendulous nature, are usually produced in pairs and provided with a broadly
. 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. PLA TYCERIUM. 79 of broad, blunt segments (Fig. 30) of a spongy texture and pale green colour, covered whe nyoung with a light, woolly substance, which gradually disappears as the frond becomes mature. The fertile fronds, 4ft. to 6ft. long and of a pendulous nature, are usually produced in pairs and provided with a broadly wedge-shaped disk : this becomes completely covered with the fructification, which forms a large, triangular patch, and it bears at each corner a repeatedly- forked division extending a good distance beyond it, but always remaining barren.— Hooker, Species Mliciim, v., p. 284 ; Filices Exotica?, t. 86. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 326. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 157. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, vii., t. 64. P. Hillii—Hil-li-i (Hill's), Moore. This very handsome Fern, native of Queensland, where it was discovered in 1878, is very closely related . Fig. 30. Platycerium grande to P. oieicorne majus—so (much reduced), much so that, until the plants attain their full development, it is very difficult to distinguish one from the other. P. Hillii has been exhaustively described by the late Thomas Moore, in the "Gardeners' Chronicle" (New Series, x., p. 429), and we cannot do better than extract from his very accurate description the following : " The rootstock forms a solid mass closely invested by the sterile fronds. The perfect fronds are erect, l^ft. long, several spring up close together ; in the young state they are clothed with white, stellate (star-like) hairs. The mature fronds are very thinly covered with minute scales, which are eventually rubbed off. The basal portion is about 1ft. high and 8in. broad, tapering gradually do
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