. 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. 58 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. P. (Platyloma) falcata—Plat-yl-o'-ma ; M-ca'-ta (sickle-shaped), Fee. This decorative, greenhouse species has a very extensive range of habitat, being found in Tropical Hindostan, the Malayan Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Kermadec Islands, &c. According to Lowe, it was in
. 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. 58 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. P. (Platyloma) falcata—Plat-yl-o'-ma ; M-ca'-ta (sickle-shaped), Fee. This decorative, greenhouse species has a very extensive range of habitat, being found in Tropical Hindostan, the Malayan Peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, the Kermadec Islands, &c. According to Lowe, it was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Allan Cunningham, as far back as 1823. The fronds, produced from a wide-creeping, slender, underground rhizome, and borne on strong, erect stalks 3in. to 6in. long, more or less hairy and scaly, are oblong-spear-shaped, 6in. to 18in. long, lin. to 2in. broad, and only once divided to the midrib (Fig. 21). They are formed of twelve to thirty or more pairs of stalkless or nearly stalkless leaflets <|in. to lin. long and Jin. to £in. broad, and usually a larger terminal one ; all are spear- shaped or oblong-spear-shaped, usually terminating in a sharp point, and often slightly sickle-shaped, wedge-shaped, enlarged, or heart-shaped at the base ;. Fig. 21. Frond of Pellsea falcata (i nat. size). their texture is leathery, and their colour a dark, dull green above, paler beneath. - The sori (spore masses) are disposed in a continuous, broad, marginal line extending from the base to nearly the summit of each fertile leaflet, and soon hide their narrow involucre.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 136, t. 11b. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 66. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, hi., t. 30b. P. (Allosorus) flavescens—All-os-o'-rus ; fla-ves'-cens (yellowish), Fee, A strong-growing, stove species, native of Rio Janeiro, where it was gathered by Bongard and by Grlaziou. It has little in common with its specific name, for its obl
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