. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 198 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDEXIXG. are slender and smooth, four to six inclies long, and the lanceolate fronds six to twelve inches long, by an inch and a half to two inches broad. The texture is less firm than that of the two preceding species ; the specific name comes from the fronds being fre- quently terminated by a long entire point. D. media, of which there are numerous forms, both wild and of garden origin, is found in the Poly- nesian Islands, Australia, and Xew Zealand. It is very closely allied to the last species, of which it is perhaps merely
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 198 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDEXIXG. are slender and smooth, four to six inclies long, and the lanceolate fronds six to twelve inches long, by an inch and a half to two inches broad. The texture is less firm than that of the two preceding species ; the specific name comes from the fronds being fre- quently terminated by a long entire point. D. media, of which there are numerous forms, both wild and of garden origin, is found in the Poly- nesian Islands, Australia, and Xew Zealand. It is very closely allied to the last species, of which it is perhaps merely a variety. pale green, firm-textured fronds, rather less than a foot in length, contrasting markedly with the wiry, polished blackish stipes, the bases of which are clothed with fine woolly reddish-brown scales. P. atropurpurea has glaucous, somewhat leathery fronds, varjdng both in cutting and outline. In size the}' range from four to twelve inches in length by two to six inches in breadth; sometimes they are simply pinnate, at other times the smooth pinnas are divided into several pinnules. This ranges from sub-arctic Korth America to the Andes of Meco\ a,. DOODIA CAUDATA. The Pellaoas.âIn general aspect the Fclheas â closely resemble the Cheilcaithes ; the habit of growth is the same in both, but the quite continuous invo- lucre, formed of the more or less changed edge of the frond, renders any Pellcea easy enough to dis- tinguish when in fruit from Cheilantlies. The geo- graphical distribution is somewhat alike in both genera; the species occur in both northern and southern hemispheres, many extending into the tropics. Probably hardly more than a dozen of the upwards of fifty species known to science, exist at the present time under cultivation in this country. The glaucous tints of several are especially pleasing, and as they require but little space andâthose which are described below at any rateâsucceed in a cool house, there are few of the smaller-growing ferns mor
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