. 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. 486 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. "Crested Shield Fem," or "Crested Buckler Fern," and in America it is known as the " Crested Wood ; According to Eaton, it is found growing in swampy woods and wet thickets, sometimes in wet meadows or open bogs, from Newfoundland and New Brunswick to the Sla
. 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. 486 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. "Crested Shield Fem," or "Crested Buckler Fern," and in America it is known as the " Crested Wood ; According to Eaton, it is found growing in swampy woods and wet thickets, sometimes in wet meadows or open bogs, from Newfoundland and New Brunswick to the Slave River and Lake Winnipeg' and extending southward to West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas. The same authority adds that in the United States it is less abundant than N. marginale and N. Thelypteris, but commoner than N. Goldieanum. As a Fern indigenous to Great Britain it is very local. N. cristatum is a singular and beautiful species, of upright habit. Its narrow-oblong, spear-shaped fronds, usually 1ft. to IJft. long, Sin. to 5in.'. Fig. 118. Frond of Mephrodium cristatum {,1 nat. size). broad, and borne on tufted stalks Gin. or more long, sparingly clothed with egg-shaped, light-coloured scales, are rendered very attractive through the bold character of their fructification, which is almost black soon after the indusium (covering) has been shed. They are produced from a rootstock creeping just below the surface of the ground, oin. to 6in. long, chaffy with large, thin, light brown, ovate' scales, which also cover the stalks and are more or less persistent on the lower part of the stalks. The leaflets, of a soft, papery texture, are broadly triangular near the base, being more elongated near the centre of the frond (Fig. 118) ; they are cut down nearly, or quite, to the base below into broad, blunt, oblong, slightly-cleft pinnules (leafits),. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorat
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