. 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. CHEILANTHES. 33 C. (Aleuritopteris) argentea—Al-eu-ri-top'-ter-is ; ar-gen'-te-a (silvery), Hooker. This is a well-known and much-appreciated, greenhouse species, native of Siberia, Japan, China, the Malayan Peninsula, and Khasya, where it is found at various elevations up to 5500ft. Its pretty fronds, Sin. to 4in. long an
. 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. CHEILANTHES. 33 C. (Aleuritopteris) argentea—Al-eu-ri-top'-ter-is ; ar-gen'-te-a (silvery), Hooker. This is a well-known and much-appreciated, greenhouse species, native of Siberia, Japan, China, the Malayan Peninsula, and Khasya, where it is found at various elevations up to 5500ft. Its pretty fronds, Sin. to 4in. long and deltoid (in shape of the Greek delta. A), are hi- or tripinnatifid, the upper part not being cut down to the midrib. The lower leaflets, much the largest, are cut down nearly to the midrib, and their lowest pin- nules (leafits) are sinuately pinna- tifid (waved and cut partly to the midrib). Their upper surface is of a bright, dark shining green, while their under-side is covered with a ceraceous (waxy) powder of a pale lemon or straw colour at first, but which becomes gra- dually as white as snow. The numerous very small sori (spore masses) are blackish, united at the base, and marginal. The curious contrast formed by the black marginal hne running all round the divisions of the frond, produced by the presence of the spore masses, is remarkable in the extreme, the elfect being very pleasin; " Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Hooker^ Species Filicum, ii., p. 76. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 307. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, iv., t. 12. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 143. VOL. II. D. Fi^. 7, Cheilanthes argentea (i nat. size). g. Fig. 7 is reduced from Col. Beddome's. 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 :
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