. 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. 138 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. and borne on firm, erect stalks 4in. to 6in. long and woolly upwards, are 6in. to 18in. long, lin. to IJin. broad, and very gradually narrowed to the apex. They are of a leathery texture, naked on their upper surface, but densely clothed underneath with a woolly sub
. 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. 138 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. and borne on firm, erect stalks 4in. to 6in. long and woolly upwards, are 6in. to 18in. long, lin. to IJin. broad, and very gradually narrowed to the apex. They are of a leathery texture, naked on their upper surface, but densely clothed underneath with a woolly substance of a somewhat rusty-brown colour. The small, bright-coloured sori (spore masses) are disposed in straight diagonal rows from midrib to edge and occupy the central portion of the fi'ond. Fig. 42 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 49. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 162. P. (Phegopteris) formosum—Phe-gop'-ter-is; for-mo'-sum (beautiful), Raddi. This very handsome, stove species is a native of Brazil. Its fronds, of a rich, dark shining green colour, are produced from an upright caudex (stem) densely covered with scales of a dark reddish-brown colour. They are IJft. to IJft. long, and are once divided to the midrib into narrow-spear-shaped leaflets, which are short-stalked and furnished with rounded pinnules (leafits). The stalks of the fronds are about lOin. long and scaly, especially near the base. The sori (spore masses) cover the whole under-side of the fronds.—Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, ii., t. Fig. 42. Polypodlum flocculosum (much reduced). P. (Drynaria) Fortune!—Dryn-a'-rl-a ; For-tu'-ne-i (Fortune's), Kunze. A singular, greenhouse species, native of South China, where it is said to be found both on the coast and in the interior. The fronds, which are produced from a short-creeping rhizome of a woody nature, are of two thoroughly distinct forms
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