. 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. 500 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. on stalks about 1ft. long and densely scal}^ are about 1ft. long and 9in. broad in the middle. Their leaflets are distant, and the pinnules (leafits), sometimes opposite, sometimes alternate, are long, narrow, and more or less rounded at the extremity, where they are sometimes forked.—Lowe, Ou
. 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. 500 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. on stalks about 1ft. long and densely scal}^ are about 1ft. long and 9in. broad in the middle. Their leaflets are distant, and the pinnules (leafits), sometimes opposite, sometimes alternate, are long, narrow, and more or less rounded at the extremity, where they are sometimes forked.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, i., fig. 263. N. d. grandiceps—gran'-dic-eps (large-headed), Moore. A remarkable variety, originally found at Windermere, and probably the most beautifully-crested known form of N. dilatatum. Its handsome fronds, of normal size, show a great development of the crests, which are disposed with constant regularity and symmetry at the end of each leaflet, besides a very large one at the extremity of the frond itself (Fig. 121).. N. (Howard's), d. Howardii — How-ar'-dl-i Monhman. This unique variety is the most remarkable form of iV. dilatatum that has yet been discovered. The name Howardii, according to Lowe, was given in comphment to the Earl of Carlisle, and in acknowledgment of the interest his Lordship has taken in the Ferns of the Castle Howard district. It was found accidentally by one of Lord Carlisle's labourers, growing luxuriantly in the Raywood, closely contiguous to Castle Howard. Like the original species, this variety is of robust habit, but the outlines of the fronds present a peculiar contracted appearance towards their extremity, where the leaflets, becoming curiously dwarfed and transformed, are composed of pinnules (leafits) having three, four, or five short divisions which are finely and continuously toothed on the margins. On account of this arrange- ment, the leaflets, with their transformed forked pinnules, strongly resemble the small fr
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