. 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. NEPHRODIUM. 555 occasionally as much as 3ft. long and 1ft. broad, are borne on naked, straw-coloured stalks fully 1ft. in length ; the lobes of their closely-set pinna3 (leaflets) are narrower than in N. Montanum^ and the sori (spore masses), which fill up the greater part of the space between the midrib and the edge, are
. 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. NEPHRODIUM. 555 occasionally as much as 3ft. long and 1ft. broad, are borne on naked, straw-coloured stalks fully 1ft. in length ; the lobes of their closely-set pinna3 (leaflets) are narrower than in N. Montanum^ and the sori (spore masses), which fill up the greater part of the space between the midrib and the edge, are covered with small, ciliated involucres. — Hooker^ Synopsis Filicum, p. 270. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 442. N. (Lastrea) Parishii — Las'-tre-a ; Par-ish'-i-i (Rev. C. S. Parish's), Hooler. A very distinct, stove species, of comparatively small dimensions, native of Moulmein, where it is said to grow on limestone rocks in shady, moist places. Its fronds, borne on slender, naked stalks 6in. to 9in. long, are. f/g. 756, Frond of Nephrodium Parishii (\ nat. size). deltoid (in shape of the Greek delta, A), 6in. to Sin. each way, their lower leaflets being much the largest (Fig. 136, reduced from Col. Beddome's "Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author). The pinnules (leafits), oblong-spear-shaped, IJin. to 2in. long, and Jin. to fin. broad, are cut down nearly to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into close, crenated (notched) lobes of a parchment-like texture. The sori (spore masses) are disposed in rows not far from the midrib.—Hooker, Sjjecies Filicum, iv., p. 131, t. 260. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 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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