. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1464 PTERIS PTEROCARYA 9. tr^mula, R. Br. Lvs. 2-4 ft. long, on polished chestnut-brown stalks; upper piunse simply pinnate, lower often much compound: sori copious, sometimes filling up the whole segment except the rachis. Australia, New Zealand. âMany forms occur in cult, as var. Smith- itaa (P. Smithii, Hort
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1464 PTERIS PTEROCARYA 9. tr^mula, R. Br. Lvs. 2-4 ft. long, on polished chestnut-brown stalks; upper piunse simply pinnate, lower often much compound: sori copious, sometimes filling up the whole segment except the rachis. Australia, New Zealand. âMany forms occur in cult, as var. Smith- itaa (P. Smithii, Hort.), variegata, 3012. Pteris Cretica, var. albo-lineata. 10. scab^rula, Richard. Lvs. 12-18 in. long, on brown- ish scabrous stalks, ianceolate-ovate in outline, tripin- nate or quadri-pinnatifld throughout; rachis flexuous, scabrous; sori at maturity covering nearly the entire surface of the narrow lanceolate segments. New Zea- land. 11. biaurita, Linn. (P. waxfmrt. Baker. P. nemoritlis, Willd.). Lvs. 15-30 in. long, with a terminal pinna fi-9 in. long cut into narrow round-pointed divisions on 7-10 pairs of similar lateral ones, the lowest pair bearing a fork on the lower basal side. All tropical regions.â Habit very like P. qitadriaicrifa, from which it differs chiefly in the venation. Var. criatata {P. maxima, var. cristdta, Hort.) is a cult. form. 12. â Wallichiana, Agardh. Lvs. tripartite, with the lateral divisions again forked, the central one reaching 2 ft. long, with numerous lanceolate sessile opposite pinnules, cut again into numerous narrow lobes one- eighth in. wide. India, Japan and the Philippine Islands. 13. leptophylla, Swz. Lvs. deltoid, 9-12 in. each way, on straw-colored stalks ; upper pinna simple, those below pinnatifld to a winged rachis, the lowest similarly bipinnatifid at the base; veins fine; sori not reaching the tips of the segments. Brazil. The following are mostly synoujTns and trade names that cannot be accounted for by tlie writer: P. a
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