. 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. POLYPODIUM. 101 way down into blunt lobes. They are of a thin, papery texture, slightly hairy on their under-side, and the spore masses are disposed in rows near the midrib. —Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 3. P. (Phymatodes) angustatum—Phy-mat-o'-des; an-gus-ta'-tum (narrow), Swartz. This stove species, native of North an
. 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. POLYPODIUM. 101 way down into blunt lobes. They are of a thin, papery texture, slightly hairy on their under-side, and the spore masses are disposed in rows near the midrib. —Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 3. P. (Phymatodes) angustatum—Phy-mat-o'-des; an-gus-ta'-tum (narrow), Swartz. This stove species, native of North and Southern India- and of New South Wales, is seldom met with in cultivation. Yet it is so distinct and so striking as to be easily remembered when once seen (Fig. 34). Its strap-shaped, entire fronds, Gin. to 12in. long, Jin. to IJin. broad, and of a very leathery texture, borne on strong, upright stalks 2in. to 4in. long, are produced from a stout, wide-creeping rhizome clothed with whitish and very narrow scales. The upper surface is naked and of a dark green colour, while the under-side is clothed with a cottony substance of a rusty-brown colour. The fertile fronds are set off to advantage by the sori (spore masses), which are large and conspicuous, generally disposed in rows near the edge of the contracted upper part of the frond. P. angustatum of Blume is synonymous with P. palmatum.—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 44 ; Garden Ferns, t. 20. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 187. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. Fig. 34. Polypodium angustatum (i nat. size). P. (Campyloneuron) angUStifolium—Camp-yl-on-eur'-on ; an-gus-tif- ol'-i-um (narrow-fronded), Swartz. This evergreen, stove species, of singular and distinct appearance, which, according to Lowe, was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1841, is a native of the West Indies and America, being found in Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. It is a very variable plant as regards the brea
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