. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 286 FILICALES [CH. fronds; (ii) filmy species in New Zealand, New South Wales, New Caledonia, and elsewhere. A plant of the small tree-fern Todea Wilkesiana (Fiji, Samoa, and other islands) in the filmy- fern house at Kew, to which my attention was drawn by my friend Mr A. W. Hill, has a slender stem with the characteristic leaf-scars exposed; it presents a striking similarity to some of the fossil species of Osmundaceae described in a later chapter. Schizaeaceae. (Schimea, Aneimia, Lygodium, Mohria.) Sporangia borne singly an
. Fossil plants : for students of botany and geology . Paleobotany. 286 FILICALES [CH. fronds; (ii) filmy species in New Zealand, New South Wales, New Caledonia, and elsewhere. A plant of the small tree-fern Todea Wilkesiana (Fiji, Samoa, and other islands) in the filmy- fern house at Kew, to which my attention was drawn by my friend Mr A. W. Hill, has a slender stem with the characteristic leaf-scars exposed; it presents a striking similarity to some of the fossil species of Osmundaceae described in a later chapter. Schizaeaceae. (Schimea, Aneimia, Lygodium, Mohria.) Sporangia borne singly and not in groups (sori), readily. Fig. 221. A. Osmunda cinnamomea (after FauU). B. Todea barhara, p, phloem ; s, solerenchyma. C. Osmunda regalis (after Luerssen). D. Todea barbara (-j nat. size). recognised by the complete transverse apical annulus usually one layer of cells deep, but occasionally two layers in depth on the side opposite the line of dehiscence^ (fig. 224, B). Schizaea (fig. 222) with the exception of one species in North America 1 Prantl (81) PI. vii. fig. 104, C ; Zeiller (97) p. 215, figs. 7— 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 Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941. Cambridge : University Press
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