. 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. THYRSOP TERIS. 347 trunks or stems more than high. Yet even these produce fronds of large dimensions, borne on strong stalks 3ft. to 4ft. long and densely covered, especially towards their base, with long, narrow scales of a rusty-brown colour. The leafy barren portion of the fronds appears to be much divided, though only
. 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. THYRSOP TERIS. 347 trunks or stems more than high. Yet even these produce fronds of large dimensions, borne on strong stalks 3ft. to 4ft. long and densely covered, especially towards their base, with long, narrow scales of a rusty-brown colour. The leafy barren portion of the fronds appears to be much divided, though only bipinnate ; it is broadly triangular, of a bright green colour, and Fig. 98. Fertile Portion of Frond of Thyrsopteris elegans (nat. size). The fertile portions, situated at their base (Fig. 98), are originally of the same colour, but, as the fructification ripens, they turn to a light brown colour, and they have all the outward appearance of miniature bunches of grapes hanging down from the stalk when the spores are ripe.—Hooker, Species Filicum, i., p. 65. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 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 Schneider, George. London : L. U. Gill
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