. 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. ASPLENIUM. 525 an erect caudex (stem) and borne on firm, erect stipes (stalks) 1ft, to ljft. long and hardly scaly below, are from 2ft. to 3ft. long and Din. to 15in. broad, and are provided on each side of the central stalk, below the pinnatifid point, with fifteen to twenty pinnEe (leaflets) 6in. to Sin. long and ljin. b
. 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. ASPLENIUM. 525 an erect caudex (stem) and borne on firm, erect stipes (stalks) 1ft, to ljft. long and hardly scaly below, are from 2ft. to 3ft. long and Din. to 15in. broad, and are provided on each side of the central stalk, below the pinnatifid point, with fifteen to twenty pinnEe (leaflets) 6in. to Sin. long and ljin. broad, which are cut half or two-thirds of the distance to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into slightly-toothed, oblong lobes or segments. The sori (spore masses) are about Jin. long and disposed close to the midvein of each fertile segment.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 236. A. (Euasplenium) crinicaule—Eu-as-ple'-ni-um ; cri-nic-au'-le (having hairy stalks), Hance. This stove species, native of China, Sikkim, and the Neilgherries, is the plant described by Beddome in his " Ferns of Southern India," t. 141, as. Fig. 87. Frond of Asplenium crinicaule (f nat. size). A. falcatum; but it is totally different from the true A. falcatum of Lambert. It is also called A. Beddomei: The fronds of A. crinicaule, Gin. to 9in. long and ljin. broad, are borne on erect stalks Sin. to 4in. long and slightly covered with dark brown hairs. There are on each side of the stalk fifteen or more horizontal, sub-coriaceous pinnae (almost leathery leaflets), with bluntish points and edges irregularly crenated (notched), the upper side narrowed suddenly and sometimes auricled at the base, the lower obliquely truncate (Fig. 87). The sparingly-produced sori (spore masses) are linear (long and narrow) and very oblique.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorati
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