. 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. CHAPTER XX. ADIANTUM, Linnaeus, ( Ad-i-an'-tum.) Maidenhair. HE name Adiantum is derived from adia?itos, dry, and was given no doubt in allusion to the singular property possessed by most species belonging to this extensive genus, whose fronds have the power of repelling water developed to such an extent that, even after h
. 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. CHAPTER XX. ADIANTUM, Linnaeus, ( Ad-i-an'-tum.) Maidenhair. HE name Adiantum is derived from adia?itos, dry, and was given no doubt in allusion to the singular property possessed by most species belonging to this extensive genus, whose fronds have the power of repelling water developed to such an extent that, even after having been wholly submerged, they are, when taken out of the water, found to be as dry as before. In Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum," Adiantum forms Genus 21 : it is there said to have its head-quarters in Tropical America, although a good many species are natives of more temperate climates. Most of the known species are recognisable from all other Ferns but the typical Lindsayas by the texture, as also by the one-sidedness, of their segments (subdivisions), and by the absence of an apparent and distinct midrib in the segments. The stipes and rachis (stalks) of most Adiantums are black in colour, and have a glossy or polished appear- ance. Usually the pinnee (leaflets) are either truncate (terminating abruptly), as though they had been shortened by the removal of their extremity, or wedge-shaped at the base, or dimidiate (fully developed on one side of the midrib and scarcely at all on the other), and soriferous (spore-bearing) only on the upper margin. The fronds are either simple (undivided), pinnate (once divided to the midrib), pedate (shaped like a bird's foot), bipinnate (twice divided to the midrib), reniform (kidney-shaped), or decompound. 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 may not perfectly resemble the original wor
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