. 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 XIX, DRYMOGLOSSUM, Presl. (Dry-mog-los'-sum.) Wood Tongue Fern. HE name Drymoglossum is applied to a small genus of dwarf, stove Ferns, of creeping habit and peculiar through the dimorphous (two-formed) nature of the fronds of all the known species. It is derived from drymos, a wood, and glossum, a tongue, in allus
. 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 XIX, DRYMOGLOSSUM, Presl. (Dry-mog-los'-sum.) Wood Tongue Fern. HE name Drymoglossum is applied to a small genus of dwarf, stove Ferns, of creeping habit and peculiar through the dimorphous (two-formed) nature of the fronds of all the known species. It is derived from drymos, a wood, and glossum, a tongue, in allusion to the natural place of growth and to the form of the fronds. Drymoglossum is a small division of the tribe Grammi- tidece, and in Hooker and" Baker's " Synopsis Filicum" it forms Genus 58. The sori (spore masses) are linear (long and very narrow) and disposed in a central or sub-marginal line, which is sometimes interrupted. Culture. Drymoglossums are of easy culture in a mixture of two parts of leaf mould, one of sphagnum, and one of peat, with a dash of silver sand ; and we have it on the authority of Messrs. Birkenhead, of Sale, near Manchester, who are most successful cultivators, that some species have been by them grown luxuriantly on cork for several years. The slender rhizomes (prostrate stems) firmly adhere to that material, especially when it is so situated as to remain permanently moist. The plants are particularly fond of strong light, but are adverse to moisture on their fronds. Propagation is usually effected by the division of the 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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