. 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. 230 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. lin. broad, borne on slender, tufted, dark purplish-brown stalks lin. long, are composed of horizontal leaflets terminating in a roundish lobe, and are provided with one or two similar lobes on each side. These leaflets are of a leathery texture, naked on both sides, and have one large sorus (
. 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. 230 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. lin. broad, borne on slender, tufted, dark purplish-brown stalks lin. long, are composed of horizontal leaflets terminating in a roundish lobe, and are provided with one or two similar lobes on each side. These leaflets are of a leathery texture, naked on both sides, and have one large sorus (spore mass) at the base of each lobe.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 307. P. (Goniopteris) urophyllum — G-o-ni-op'-ter-is ; u-roph-yF-lum (tail- leaved), Wallich. This strong-growing, stove species, native of Ceylon, Malaysia, and Queensland, produces from a creeping rhizome its fronds, which are 2ft. to 4ft. long, lft. to l£ft. broadband borne on stout, upright stalks 2ft. or more in length. They are composed of a terminal leaflet, and have usually several on each side, which are sometimes lft. long and more than 2in. broad j their edge is entire or very slightly lobed, their extremity sharp-pointed, and their base narrowed and maimed. The texture is somewhat leathery, and the spore masses are disposed sometimes in two close rows and sometimes in one row only—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 9. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 239. P. U. rubrinerYe—rub-rin-er'-ve (having red nerves), Baker. Though considered as scarcely more than a variety of P. urophyllum, this Fern, native of Aneiteum and the Fiji Islands, is distinct through the dark green colour of its leaflets, naked on both sides, and also through the reddish tint of its midribs.— Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 315. P. (Goniophlebium) Yacciniifolium — Go-ni- oph-leb'-i-uni ; vac-ci-ni-if-oF-i-um (Whortle- berry-leaved), Fischer and Langsdorff. Though of small dimensions, this stove Fern, native of the West In
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