. 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. NEPHRODIUM. 547 N. (Lastrea) montanum — Las'-tre-a ; mon-ta'-num (Mountain Buckler Fern), Baker. This interesting, hardy species, also known under the name of Lastrea Oreopteris, though not indigenous in any other part of the world, is found in France, Switzerland, and in the centre of Europe in considerable quantities. It
. 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. NEPHRODIUM. 547 N. (Lastrea) montanum — Las'-tre-a ; mon-ta'-num (Mountain Buckler Fern), Baker. This interesting, hardy species, also known under the name of Lastrea Oreopteris, though not indigenous in any other part of the world, is found in France, Switzerland, and in the centre of Europe in considerable quantities. It is widely spread through the United Kingdom, being exceedingly common in Scotland and the North of England, where it ranges from the sea-level to an altitude of oOOOft. Ray, who first mentions it as a native of this country, referring to it in the Appendix to the Second Edition of his " Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum," gives it as "a variety of the common Male Fern, observed by Petiver on Dunsmore Heath, near Rugby, in the County of ; It was eventually found in many parts of the British Islands, notably at Old Foot's Well, Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire ; near Chapel Weardale and Darlington, in Dur- ham ; in the woods of Castle Howard, in Yorkshire; at Conham and Leigh Woods, near Bristol, in Somersetshire ; on Bailey's Hill, between Brasted and Tunbridge, in Kent; near Southampton, &c. In the Lake District of Westmoreland and Cumberland it is very abundant. It has been gathered °f Nephrodium ° molle grandiceps 111 Wales, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, (i nat. size), and at Llanberis and ISTant Gwynedd, in Carnarvonshire, and has been reported from various parts of Scotland and Ireland. As its name implies, the Mountain Buckler Fern is usually found growing upon mountain heaths, but it is also an inhabitant of shady woods where the soil is moist, without, however, being uniformly wet. The spear-shaped fronds of this species, produc
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