. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . renato-lobalo;voitu almple or forkftJ, th»j anterior venule bcarlnfj a hliort•oblong ncinia; atipes elongated, gloHay brorrii, lateral, adberttntto a cre«plng An ornamental deciduous hothouse Fern, native oKhasiyaand AsHam. It ban a ah-nder creeping rhizomeAbout the aize of a goose |uill,to which the lutend frondsare adherent. They grow 2 to .J feet high, and have along brown glossy rjtipes, ihe brown colour being alhocontinued ap the rachis and forcning a contrast with thelight green of the frond, J \\t: pinnio (ir« remote, 4 or
. The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette . renato-lobalo;voitu almple or forkftJ, th»j anterior venule bcarlnfj a hliort•oblong ncinia; atipes elongated, gloHay brorrii, lateral, adberttntto a cre«plng An ornamental deciduous hothouse Fern, native oKhasiyaand AsHam. It ban a ah-nder creeping rhizomeAbout the aize of a goose |uill,to which the lutend frondsare adherent. They grow 2 to .J feet high, and have along brown glossy rjtipes, ihe brown colour being alhocontinued ap the rachis and forcning a contrast with thelight green of the frond, J \\t: pinnio (ir« remote, 4 or fiinches long, and liave a pfcuhar ftpp«-ftraiico, from iIiHtrspreading piwition iind the cnlargcl Hix<3 of lhi3 hnHalpair of hti^tUMutA ; these are deeply lobed or pinnatifidwith roundifih ohiong lobes, th« rciit being hiightly buttunally mor« or Ichm crcnuto-tihote; iho margin ishairy. The arc short ohiong, forming two linesiiear the margin of the segmentu, unuolly distinct andhome by th« anterior branch only of the forked veins,. and they always extend quite to the margin. SirW. ^Hooker describes the rachis as slightly hairy ;the hairs are probably very easily detarhed, as we donot find them on our specimens. The texture of tlieplant is membranaceous, becoming rigidly so when plant has a very distinct appearance, and has beencultivated for sevend years by Mr. Henderson,of Went-worth. Equally with the Grammitis Hewardii, thisplant appears to us to belong to the genus Grammitis,its naked sori being always short, simple, oblong massesof spore-cases, not having any tendency to becomeforked, and therefore having none of the slight characterof Gymnogramma. Its creeping ihizome is a featureat variance witli both these genera ; but we do not thinksuch differences afford sufficient ground for allusion to this habit, the plant had been ramedGymnogramma repens in a paper on cultivated Fernsnot yet published, of which the earlier portion wasprinte
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