. 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. CHAPTER POLYPODIUM, Linnceus. (Pol-yp-od'-i-um.) Polypodies. OLYPODIUM, the Greek name used by Theophrastus, is applied to plants wHcli, in Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum," form Genus 48 ; it is derived from polys, many, and podion, a little foot, in allusion to the appearan
. 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. CHAPTER POLYPODIUM, Linnceus. (Pol-yp-od'-i-um.) Polypodies. OLYPODIUM, the Greek name used by Theophrastus, is applied to plants wHcli, in Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum," form Genus 48 ; it is derived from polys, many, and podion, a little foot, in allusion to the appearance of the rhizomes and their appendages with which the majority of these plants are provided. The genus is an exceedingly large one—undoubtedly the most extensive of the Natural Order Filices (Ferns), and includes plants of two totally different modes of growth, each series comprising a number of species of each of the different kinds of venation and from all climates. Eaton, in his exhaustive work on "Ferns of North America" (vol. i., p. 116), says: " Mr. John Smith, former Curator of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, has described and carefully distinguished the two modes of growth noticed in Polypodium, under the names of ' Eremobryoid' and ' Desmobryoid.' In the Eremobrya each frond springs from a separate node, more or less distant from its neighbour, and is there articulated with the rhizome ; so that, when it has passed its maturity, it separates at the node, and leaves behind a clean, concave scar, as may readily be noticed in P. aureum. The essential distinction between the Eremobrya and the Desmobrya rests in the fronds of the former being articulated with the axis or rhizome, while those of the latter are adherent and continuous with the axis or ; In the Desmobrya the spores are always medial on the veins, while in the Eremobrya, which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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