. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1464 PTERIS 9. tT6mula, R. Br. Lvs. 2-4 ft. long, on polished chestnut-brown stalks; iipper pinnae simply pinnate, lower often much compound: sori copious, sometimes filling up the whole segment except the rachis. Australia, New Zealand. âMany forms occur in cult, as v
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1464 PTERIS 9. tT6mula, R. Br. Lvs. 2-4 ft. long, on polished chestnut-brown stalks; iipper pinnae simply pinnate, lower often much compound: sori copious, sometimes filling up the whole segment except the rachis. Australia, New Zealand. âMany forms occur in cult, as var. Smith- iana (P. Smithii. Hort.), variegita, 3013. Ptcris Cretica. ' 10. scabirula, Richard. Lvs. 12-18 in. long, on brown- ish scabrous stalks, lanceolate-ovate in outline, tripin- nate or quadri-pinnatifid throughout; rachis flexuous, scabrous: sori at maturity covering nearly the entire surface of the narrow lanceolate segments. New Zea- land. 11. biaorlta, Linn. (P. mn'jtma. Baker. P. nemorilis, Willd.). Lvs. 15-aO in. long, with a terminal pinna fy-d in. long cut into narrow round-pointed divisions on 7-10 pairs of similar lateral ones, the lowest pair bearing a fork on the lower basal side. All tropical regions.â Habit very like P. quadriaurita, from which it differs chiefly in the venation. Var. crist&ta (P. maxima, var. cristdta, Hort.) is a cult. form. 12. WalUclii4na, Agardh. Lvs. tripartite, with the lateral divisions again forked, the central one reaching 2 ft. long, with numerous lanceolate sessile opposite pinnules, cut again into numerous narrow lobes one- eighth in. wide. India, Japan and the Philippine Islands. 13. leptoph^Ua, Swz. Lvs. deltoid, 9-12 in. each way, . on straw-colored stalks ; upper pinna simple, those below piunatifid to awinged rachis, the lowest similarly bipinnatifld at the base; veins fine; sori not reaching the tips of the segments. Brazil. Tho f(>llo\yine are mostly synonyms and trade names that â Mil,.! M n iiiited for
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