. 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. HYPOLEPIS. 345 equally well in the greenhouse or in the stove, although in the latter place it attains larger dimensions. Its ample fronds, 4ft. to 5ft. long and quadri- pinnatifid (four times divided nearly to the midrib), are produced from a stoutish, wide-creeping rhizome (prostrate stem) of a downy or slightly hairy na
. 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. HYPOLEPIS. 345 equally well in the greenhouse or in the stove, although in the latter place it attains larger dimensions. Its ample fronds, 4ft. to 5ft. long and quadri- pinnatifid (four times divided nearly to the midrib), are produced from a stoutish, wide-creeping rhizome (prostrate stem) of a downy or slightly hairy nature, and borne on strong, upright stalks 1ft. long and also slightly hairy. The lower leaflets, usually 1ft. to l^^ft. long and 6in. to Din. broad, are divided into spear-shaped pinnules (leafits), which in their turn are subdivided into segments of similar shape, cut down to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into numerous narrow-oblong, toothed ultimate divisions. The texture is soft and papery, and the under-surface is sometimes slightly hairy. The sori (spore masses), two to six to an ultimate division, are placed at the sinuses (notches) of the teeth.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 60, tt. 89c and 90a. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., j). ISOLOMA—Is-ol-o'-ma. See 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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