. 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. SCOLOPENDRIUM. 327 although it was eventually found wild at South Weald, Brentwood, Essex. Its short, often twin-stalked, nearly erect fronds are much branched in their central part, where they form a dense tuft of crowded, much overlapping segments, which terminate in a repeatedly short, branched head, of which the ultima
. 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. SCOLOPENDRIUM. 327 although it was eventually found wild at South Weald, Brentwood, Essex. Its short, often twin-stalked, nearly erect fronds are much branched in their central part, where they form a dense tuft of crowded, much overlapping segments, which terminate in a repeatedly short, branched head, of which the ultimate branchlets or lobes are deeply cut and crispy ; each fan-like frond is about 9in. wide.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., p. 267. S. v. Elworthii — El-wor'-thi-i (Elworth's), Moore. A singular, dwarf - growing variety. Its fronds, not including the stalks, are scarcely more than 2in. long and Sin. broad ; they consist of three branches, one of which is usually three times divided, the branches being fan-shaped and deeply cut, with wavy, overlapping . lobes.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. 632. S. Y. endiYaefolium — en-di-VEe-for-i-um (Endive-leaved). A commercial name for S. v. laceratum. S. y. fimbriatum—fim-bri-a'-tum (fringed), Allchin. This very distinct and extremely pretty variety, also known in gardens as S. v. mar- ginatum tenue, was originally found in Guernsey. It is a distinct form of the marginatum section, with two kinds of fronds : the broader ones are 6in. long, fin. broad, contracted at the base, and irregularly fringed along their margins ; the narrower are 9in. to 12in. long, Jin. wide, and nearly erect. So narrow is the leafy portion, which is of very thick texture, that on either side it is only of the same width as the stalk itself. The margins are finely fringed.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. Fig. 91. Scolopendrium vulgare cristatum viviparum (i nat. size).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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