. Ferns: British & foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. Ferns. 266 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 150. MABATTIA, Genus 150.—Fertile pinnule, under side. No. 5. Vernation fasciculate, erect, subarboreous; eachfrondrising from between two fleshy sti- pulseform appendages (which sometimes assume the cha- racter of abnormal fronds); base of the stipes clavate, pseudo-articulated with the axis. Fronds bi-tripinnate, 6-18 feet long; pinnules articulated with the rachis. Veins simple o
. Ferns: British & foreign. The history, organography, classification, and enumeration of the species of garden ferns with a treatise on their cultivation, etc. etc. Ferns. 266 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 150. MABATTIA, Genus 150.—Fertile pinnule, under side. No. 5. Vernation fasciculate, erect, subarboreous; eachfrondrising from between two fleshy sti- pulseform appendages (which sometimes assume the cha- racter of abnormal fronds); base of the stipes clavate, pseudo-articulated with the axis. Fronds bi-tripinnate, 6-18 feet long; pinnules articulated with the rachis. Veins simple or forked, free. Synangia sessile, superficial, oblong, distant, sub-terminal, longitudinally bivalved, each valve consisting of 3-12 late- rally-connate sporangia, which open by a slit on their interior side. Receptacles sometimes furnished with an indusioid fimbriate membrane. 1. M. alata, Sm. Ic. ined. t. 46; Schh. Fil. t. 152 ; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 26. Disco- stegia alata, Presl. Marattia Lauchi- ana, Sort. — West Indies. 2. M. cieutsefolia, Kaulf.; Mart. Ic. Crypt. Bras. t. 69, 71, 72. Gymnotheca cieutsefolia, Presl.—Brazil. 3. M. elegans, Endl.—Norfolk Island, New Zealand. 4. M. fraxinea, Sm. Ic. ined. t. 48; Schh. Fil. t. 152.— Mauritius, "West Africa. 5. M. laxa, Kunze; Schh. Siipp. 1, t. 95; Lowe's Ferns, 8 t. 77. Gymnotheca laxa, Presl. Marattia macro- phylla, Sort.— 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 Smith, John, 1798-1888. London, W. H. Allen & Co. , Ltd.
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