. 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. 194 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. P. Picoti—Pi-cot'-i (Picot's), Regel. This is a noble-looking, greenhouse Fern, of vigorous habit. Its numerous arching, wavy, narrow-oblong, entire fronds, 3ft. or more in length and 4in. to Gin. broad, are of a leathery texture, dark green and very shiny above, and glaucous-green beneath. It
. 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. 194 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. P. Picoti—Pi-cot'-i (Picot's), Regel. This is a noble-looking, greenhouse Fern, of vigorous habit. Its numerous arching, wavy, narrow-oblong, entire fronds, 3ft. or more in length and 4in. to Gin. broad, are of a leathery texture, dark green and very shiny above, and glaucous-green beneath. It is a native of Brazil, and was intro- duced into Europe in 1886.—Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 592. P. (Goniophlebium) piloselloides — Go-m-oph-leb'-i-um ; pil-o-sel- lo-i'-des {Pilosella-like), Linnaeus. Among the various Polypods of diminutive size, this stove species (Fig. 56), which is common throughout Tropical America and the West Indies, is undoubtedly one of the most attractive. It is the Lopholepis piloselloides of J. Smith, and has the appearance of a miniature Niphobolus, its barren and fertile fronds, articulated upon a slender, very wide- creeping rhizome of a wiry nature, differing from each other in both size and form. The barren ones, lin. to 3in. long, £in. to fin. broad, and egg-shaped, are borne on short, hairy stalks ; the fertile ones, narrower and longer, are borne upon longer, more slender, and equally hairy stalks. Both kinds are of Fig. 56. Portion of Creeping Rhizome {with a leathery texture, pale green in colour, and Barren Fronds) of Polypoclium piloselloides , (nearly nat. size). more or less scaly on both sides. Ihe large, bright yellow sori (spore masses) form a conspicuous row on each side of the midrib.—Hooker, Garden Ferns, t. 18. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, hi., p. 192. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, i., t. 32. P. p. aurisetum—au-ri-se'-tum (having golden bristles), Raddi. This variety differs from the typica
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