. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. 272 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. upright, straw-coloured stalks 2ft. to 3ft. long and glossy. The terminal leaflet, 1ft. to l^ft. long, is cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into numerous narrow lobes on each side, finely toothed when barren. The upper lateral leaflets, Gin. long, are not cut d
. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. 272 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. upright, straw-coloured stalks 2ft. to 3ft. long and glossy. The terminal leaflet, 1ft. to l^ft. long, is cut down nearly or quite to the rachis into numerous narrow lobes on each side, finely toothed when barren. The upper lateral leaflets, Gin. long, are not cut down to the rachis ; the lower ones equal in size and cutting the terminal one, and make the frond 2ft. to 3ft. broad at the base. All are of a somewhat leathery texture and naked on both sides, and the spore masses fall short of the points of the segments. —Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 223. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 242. P. elegans—e'-leg-ans (elegant). A garden name for P. Fig. 74, Pteris ensiformis (nearly nat. size). P. ensiformis—en-sif-or'-mis (sword-shaped), Burmann. This greenhouse species, of small dimensions, better known under the name of P. crenata, has a wide range of habitat, being found from the Himalayas to Ceylon, Chusan, and the Loo-Choo Islands, southward to Tropical Australia, and eastward to Samoa and Fiji. Its fronds, borne on slender, erect, straw- coloured stalks 3in. to 6in. long, are 6in. to 12in. long, 3in. to 6in. broad, and composed of a long terminal leaflet and from two to four pairs of lateral ones, much resembling those of 7^. cretim, but' the fertile ones, slightly compound, are cut down to the rachis below into two to six sharply-toothed leafits (Fig. 74, reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of Southern India," by the kind. 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 ma
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