. 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. 542 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. the extremity, and nearly entire, though occasionally lobed or indistinctly toothed (Fig. 131). The large and prominent sori (spore masses) are disposed along the margin of the leafits, and are covered with a firm, roundish- kidney-shaped, lead-coloured involucre.—Hooker^ Si^ecics Filicum^ iv.
. 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. 542 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. the extremity, and nearly entire, though occasionally lobed or indistinctly toothed (Fig. 131). The large and prominent sori (spore masses) are disposed along the margin of the leafits, and are covered with a firm, roundish- kidney-shaped, lead-coloured involucre.—Hooker^ Si^ecics Filicum^ iv., p. 122. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 441. Eaton, Ferns of North America, ii., t. 55. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, vi., t. Fi^. 131. Frond of Nephrodium marginale (I nat. size). In cultivation, N. marginale stands our winters outside very well, but in that case it becomes deciduous, although it is quite evergreen in the greenhouse. When planted in the outdoor rockery, a situation neither too wet nor too dry should be selected for it. There exists in America a variety elegans in w^hich, although of smaller growth, the fronds have most of their leafits twice or even three times as long- as those of the type, and all pinnatiiid (divided nearly to the midrib), thus making a very distinct plant. (Lastrea) Maximowiczii — Las'-tre-a ; Max-im-ow-ic'-zi-i (Maxim- owdcz's). Baker. A distinct, greenhouse species, of medium growth, native of Yokohama, with fronds deltoid and quadripinnatifid (in shape of the Greek delta. A, and four times divided nearly to the midrib), seldom more than 1ft. each w^ay, and borne on light brown, glossy stalks Gin. to Sin. long, clothed with scattered scales throughout. The low^est leaflets, much the largest and long- stalked, are produced on the lower side; their lowest leafits and segments, also deltoid and stalked, are cuneate (wedge-shaped) at the base, and the final lobes are oblong, unequal-sided, and distinctly toothed ; they
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