. 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. BA VALLIA. 147. Java, Borneo, and Singapore, where some trees have their trunks hterally covered with it. Its httle fronds, deltoid in outhne (in shape of the Greek delta, A), seldom exceed lui. long and Jin. broad (Fig. 34). They are produced from a slender, scaly rhizome (prostrate stem), and are borne on smooth stalks J
. 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. BA VALLIA. 147. Java, Borneo, and Singapore, where some trees have their trunks hterally covered with it. Its httle fronds, deltoid in outhne (in shape of the Greek delta, A), seldom exceed lui. long and Jin. broad (Fig. 34). They are produced from a slender, scaly rhizome (prostrate stem), and are borne on smooth stalks Jin. to lin. long ; they are bi- or tripinnate (twice or three times divided to the midrib), with all their divisions almost fiHform (thread-like) and the ultimate segments sharp at the point. The sori (spore masses) are placed at the sinuses (openings) of the ultimate forks, and are covered by involucres that are broader than the segments.—Hooker, Species Filicum, i., p. 160. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardeninfi, i., p. 446. Beddome, Ferns of - ^ ^» ^ British India, t. 97. Although it grows only a few inches high, D. parvula, with its small, dark green ^ T p 1,1,,. 1 Fig. 34. Damllia parvula ironds oi a very leathery texture, is a general ^^^^ ^^^^^ favourite amongst lovers of plants which are attractive either through some peculiar conformation or simply on account of the neatness of their habit. To be grown to perfection, this exquisite little gem requires only a very shallow pan, great care being taken to keep the whole of the rhizomes above ground. It also forms very pretty objects when grown on a Tree-Fern trunk, or on imitations of trunks made of sphagnum moss tightly bound together. D. (Humata) pectinata—Hum-a'-ta ; pec-tin-a'-ta (comb-hke), S7nith. A stove species, of small dimensions, native of the Tropical Polynesian Islands. It produces, from a creeping, scaly rhizome (prostrate stem), spear- shaped fronds 4in. to Sin. long and 2in. to Sin. broad, which are borne
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