. 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. 456 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. Propagation is readily effected from spores, which are abundantly produced, and which germinate very freely, producing young subjects in a remarkably short space of time. M. achilleaefolia — ach-iU-e'-te-fol'-i -a (Yarrow-leaved). A variety of M. caffrorum. M. caffrorum—caf-fro'-rum (native of
. 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. 456 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. Propagation is readily effected from spores, which are abundantly produced, and which germinate very freely, producing young subjects in a remarkably short space of time. M. achilleaefolia — ach-iU-e'-te-fol'-i -a (Yarrow-leaved). A variety of M. caffrorum. M. caffrorum—caf-fro'-rum (native of Kaffraria), Desvaux. This handsome Fern, popularly known as M. thurifraga, is a native of South Africa, Madagascar, and the Mauritius and Bourbon Islands. Being of a gracefully pendulous habit, and essentially distinct from any other drooping Fern, it is very useful for growing in hanging baskets of small or medium size, as its elegant fronds, produced from a close, tufted crown, and borne on stalks Sin. to 4in. long, more or less densely clothed with scales of a reddish-brown colour, sometimes attain IJft. in length and 4in. in breadth. The barren ones (Fig. 113) are trij)innatifid (three times divided nearly to the midrib), being furnished with oblong-spear-shaped leaflets, cut down to a narrowly-winged rachis (stalk) into leafits of a soft, papery texture, deeply cleft and again conspicuously toothed. The fertile fronds are longer than the barren ones, from which they also differ by being consj)icuously contracted and by having their leaflets rounded at the edges : this contraction of the lobes over the spore masses gives them a very elegant Fig. 113. Barren Frond of appearance. The rachises and the under-surface of both Mohria caffrorum kinds of fronds are more or less densely clothed with (much reduced). very narrow scales of a pale brown colour. When bruised, the plant emits a strong odour of frankincense.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 436. Nicholson, Dictionary of
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