. 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. 628 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. reach nearly to the midrib and edge.—Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., p. 109. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 133. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 128. A. (Euasplenium) Petrarchas — Eu-as-ple' -ni-um : Pet-rarch/-a3 (Petrarch's), Be Candolle. This little gem, native of the South o
. 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. 628 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. reach nearly to the midrib and edge.—Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., p. 109. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 133. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 128. A. (Euasplenium) Petrarchas — Eu-as-ple' -ni-um : Pet-rarch/-a3 (Petrarch's), Be Candolle. This little gem, native of the South of France, Spain, and Italy, succeeds best when cultivated in the cold greenhouse. It is readily distin- guished from A. Trichomanes by the glandular character of its fronds, 4in. to 6in. long, and by their more deeply- cut leaflets of a pale green Colour. The sori (spore masses), oblong in shape and very short, are disposed from four to six on each side of the midrib.— Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., p, 138. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 133. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, v., t. 38. A. (Euasplenium) pinnatifidum —Eu-as-ple'-ni-um ; pin-na-tif'-id-um (pinnately-cleft), Nuttall. This is essentially a greenhouse species, native of North America, having been first discovered in crevices of rocks along the Schuylkill River, near Philadelphia ; then along the Wissa- hickon Creek, in the same vicinity ; on Fig. 121. Asplenium pinmtiftdum moigt ^ of sandgtone in the Cum. (i nat. size). berland Mountains, East Tennessee, also in Alabama and at Mine-la-Motte, Southern Missouri. Its singular fronds, of a thin, papery texture, borne on stipites (stalks) 2in. to 4in. long, brown, shining at the base but green higher up, and slightly chaify when young, are from 3in. to 6in. long, ljin. broad at the base, from which the general. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appea
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