. 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 XVII. THYRSOPTERIS, Kunze. (Thyr-sop'-ter-is.) EMVED from thyrsos, a bunch or raceme, and Pteris, a Fern, this name alludes to the fructification in the genus, which is disposed in racemose bunches. In Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum" Thyrsopteris forms a division of the tribe Cyathece as Genus 3. I
. 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 XVII. THYRSOPTERIS, Kunze. (Thyr-sop'-ter-is.) EMVED from thyrsos, a bunch or raceme, and Pteris, a Fern, this name alludes to the fructification in the genus, which is disposed in racemose bunches. In Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum" Thyrsopteris forms a division of the tribe Cyathece as Genus 3. It is composed of a solitary and most interesting .species, which, according to Nicholson, was introduced from Juan Fernandez Island in 1854. It is a thoroughly distinct plant, requiring only greenhouse temperature, shade, and an abundance of water at the roots. The fructification is totally different from that of any other known Fern, and consists of the two or three pairs of lower leaflets of the frond being tripinnate (three times divided to the midrib), each pinnule (leant) becoming a raceme of stalked, cup-shaped involucres. Although fertile fronds have at various times been produced in this country and every possible attention has been paid to the sowing of their spores, there is no record of any young plants having been so raised, and the propagating of this handsome Fern has therefore been limited to the rooting of the lateral shoots which are produced on the trunk. T. elegans—e'-leg-ans (elegant), Kunze. This beautiful plant is said to produce, in its native habitats, trunks 15ft. high, but in this country we have never had the advantage of seeing. 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 Schneider, George. London : L. U. Gill
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