. 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. 208 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. D. piloselloides—pil-o-sel-lo-i'-des (Pilosella-like), Presl, This is one of those species that are found in many habitats, in some cases very distant from one another. It is a native alike of the Bengal plains, Burmah, Ceylon, South India, the plains of Malabar, Java, the Philip- pine Islands


. 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. 208 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. D. piloselloides—pil-o-sel-lo-i'-des (Pilosella-like), Presl, This is one of those species that are found in many habitats, in some cases very distant from one another. It is a native alike of the Bengal plains, Burmah, Ceylon, South India, the plains of Malabar, Java, the Philip- pine Islands, and Japan, in which places it covers the trunks of trees. The following is the description of it by Colonel Beddome, to whom we are also indebted for permission Fig. 46 from his "Ferns of Southern India " : Rhizome long, filiform (thread-hke), and of a wiry nature, covered with closely-pressed, diamond-shaped, laciniated scales, which sometimes are hair-pointed ; stipes (stalks) about |in. long in the barren fronds, often about lin. long in the fertile ones. These fronds are dimorphous (of two forms), the barren ones roundish or obovate (somewhat egg-shaped), Jin. to 2in. long, fin. broad, very thick and fleshy, and when young more or less covered with stellate (star- like) hairs ; the fertile ones 2in. to 4in. long and Jin. to ^in. broad. The sori (spore masses) are dis- posed in broad, continuous, marginal lines, often at length confluent and covering the whole under-surface ; the capsules are mixed with a few stellate paraphyses (succulent, jointed filaments). This singular species, of easy culture, is particularly effective when grown on a piece of dead Tree Fern.— Hooher, Species Filicum, v., p. 190. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 495. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. Fig. 46. Drymoglossum piloselloides (4 nat. size).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced fo


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