. 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. 92 THE BOOK OF CHOICE the fertile ones, longer and narrower (2in. to 4in. long and Jin. to Jin. broad), have their fructification confined to the upper part, which is narrowed or conspicuously contracted. The fronds are of a leathery texture and smooth on both sides, and the sori (spore
. 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. 92 THE BOOK OF CHOICE the fertile ones, longer and narrower (2in. to 4in. long and Jin. to Jin. broad), have their fructification confined to the upper part, which is narrowed or conspicuously contracted. The fronds are of a leathery texture and smooth on both sides, and the sori (spore masses) are disposed in single rows close to the midrib. Fig. 31 is re- duced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Hooker, Species Fili- cum, v., p. 66. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 215. P. achilleaefolium — ach- ill-e'-a3-foF-i-um (Achillea- leaved), Kaulfuss. A small-growing, stove spe- cies, native of Ecuador and Brazil, with oblong-spear-shaped fronds Sin. to Sin. long, lin. to IJin. broad, produced from a single crown, and borne on tufted stalks barely lin. long, of a wiry nature, but clothed with short, soft, spreading hairs. The leaflets, of a leathery texture, closely set, and spreading, are deeply deft into narrow lobes, each of which bears a spore m&^B.—Hooker, Species Filicum, iv., p. 225. P. (Niphobolus) acrostichoides — Mph-ob'-ol-us ; ac-ros'-tich-o-i'-des (Acrostichum-like), Forster. This stove species, native of Ceylon, Malaysia, the Philippines, the New Hebrides, Queensland, &c., and rare in cultivation, possesses a very peculiar appearance on account of its singularly long and comparatively narrow, leathery, drooping fronds being produced at long intervals apart on a wide-creeping, woody rhizome, clothed with roundish scales black in the centre. The fertile and the barren fronds are similar in shape and size, and are also produced in about equal proportions ; they are borne on fir
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