. 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. 370 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. broad, are produced from a wide-creeping, strong, woolly rMzome; they are deeply cleft nearly to the broadly-winged stalk, and are borne on strong, compressed stalks 2in. to 4in. long and winged above, their main rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) being densely and
. 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. 370 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. broad, are produced from a wide-creeping, strong, woolly rMzome; they are deeply cleft nearly to the broadly-winged stalk, and are borne on strong, compressed stalks 2in. to 4in. long and winged above, their main rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) being densely and the surface of the lobes slightly hairy. This species requires a higher temperature than most of the Trichomanes in cultivation. — Hooker and Greville, Icones Filicum, t. 10. Nicholson^ Dictionary of Gardening., iv., p. 81. Lowe, New and Rare Ferns, t. 63b. T. Kraussii—Kraus'-si-i (Dr. Krauss'), Hooker and Greville. This is a small, elegant, creeping Fern, native of Guiana and the West Indian Islands, where it grows on trunks of trees. It is of upright habit, with fronds lin. to Sin. long, oblong, narrower at the base than in their centre, and cut down to a winged stalk into oblong, stalkless lobes that are deeply toothed or cleft and of a very transparent nature (Fig. 104).—Hooker and Greville, Icones Filicum, t. 149. Nicholson, Dictionary of Garden- ing, iv., p. 81. Lowe, New and Rare Ferns, p. 164. T. Kunzeanum—Kunz-g-a'-num (Kunze's). A variety of T. Fig. 104. Mature Fertile Fronds of Triohomanes Kraussii (I nat. size). T. labiatum—lab-i-a'-tum (lipped), Baker. In this species, native of British Guiana, the fronds are variable in shape, roundish and heart- shaped at one or both ends, or somewhat egg-shaped and narrowed at the summit; they are of a dark green colour, yet quite transparent, and the fertile ones show a distinct midrib.—Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 81. T. Lambertianum—Lam-bert-i-a'-num (Lambert's), Hooker. This species,
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