. 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 XXVIIL HYPOLEPIS, Bernhardi. (Hyp-oF-ep-is.) LTHOUGH Hooker, in Ms " Species Filicum," enumerates some thirty species, Presl, in Ms " Tantamen PteridograpMa^," describes ten species, and Fee, in his " Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacees," gives over twenty species, this genus, close
. 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 XXVIIL HYPOLEPIS, Bernhardi. (Hyp-oF-ep-is.) LTHOUGH Hooker, in Ms " Species Filicum," enumerates some thirty species, Presl, in Ms " Tantamen PteridograpMa^," describes ten species, and Fee, in his " Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacees," gives over twenty species, this genus, closely allied to Cheilanthes^ as it is accepted now, comprises only about a dozen species of Ferns of medium and large dimensions, all furnished with creeping rhizomes (decumbent stems). It derives its name from under, and lepis^ a scale, in allusion to the marginal covering pecuhar to the inferior sporange (lower spore capsule), and in Hooker's " Synopsis Fihcum " forms Genus 24. The distinctive characters of the plants which have been retained in this genus reside in the non-confluent nature of their uniform, roundish, marginal, small sori (spore masses) and in their invariably being placed in the sinuses (notches) of the ultimate divisions of the frond ; also in the involucre, of the same shape as the sorus wMch it covers, being membranous in texture and formed out of the reflexed margin. Culture. All the known species of Hypoleijis are indigenous in either warm or temperate climates—TrojDical America and the West Indies as well as New Zealand, Cape Colony, and California : the genus has no British 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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