. Ferns: British & foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. Ferns. •208 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate; pinna? articulated with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein continuous -with, and close to, the costa; venules direct, their apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose margin; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- c
. Ferns: British & foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. Ferns. •208 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate; pinna? articulated with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein continuous -with, and close to, the costa; venules direct, their apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose margin; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, continuous; sporangia confluent. * Fertile fronds pinnate. 1. 0. scandens, J. 8m.; Hooh. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Acro- stichum scandens, Linn. Onoclea scandens, Linn. Serb.; Sclih. Fil. Lomaria scandens, Willd.— East Indies and Malayan Islands. ** Fertile fi onda hipinnate. 2. S. Meyeriana, /. Sm. ; Loiva's Ferns, 4, t. 47. 48. Lo- maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriana, Fee. Stenochtana tenuifolia, T. Moore. ? Lomaria tenuifolia, Lesv. Stenochlcona scandens, Hart. Acro- stichum Meyeriannm, Hooh. Gard. Ferns, t. 16.— South Africa. 109. SALPICHLiENA, J. Sm. subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnate,. leg —Portion of barren and fertile pinna, natural size. No. I*. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smith, John, 1798-1888. London, W. H. Allen & Co. , Ltd.
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