. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 129 P. (Goniopteris) diversifolium — Go-m-op'-ter-is ; di-ver-sif-ol'-i-um (various-leaved), Swartz. This stove species, native of Brazil, Caraccas, and Ecuador, must not be confounded with P. diversifolium of R. Brown, which is only a synonym of P. rigidulum. Its simply-pinnate fron
. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. POLYPODIUM. 129 P. (Goniopteris) diversifolium — Go-m-op'-ter-is ; di-ver-sif-ol'-i-um (various-leaved), Swartz. This stove species, native of Brazil, Caraccas, and Ecuador, must not be confounded with P. diversifolium of R. Brown, which is only a synonym of P. rigidulum. Its simply-pinnate fronds, 1ft. to 2ft. long, Gin. to 9in. broad, and borne on tufted, slender, naked stalks Ift. to 2ft. long, are furnished with. Fi^. 39. Pinna of Polypodium diversifolium (nat. size). long, narrow leaflets seldom more than lin. broad, with the edge nearly entire or slightly undulated. They are of a somewhat leathery texture, very prettily veined, and their sori (spore masses) are disposed in a row on each side of and close to the midrib (Fig. 39).—Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 4. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 189. P. (Phegopteris) drepanum — Phe-gop'-ter-is ; drep'-an-um (sickle- like). Hooker. A very handsome, greenhouse species, native of Madeira, with fronds l^ft. to 3ft. long. Sin. to 12in. broad, produced from a short, upright stem, and borne on tufted stalks, which are Ift. to IJft. long and densely clothed with dark-coloured scales at their base. The lowest leaflets, which are also the largest, often measure Sin. in length and 3in. in breadth ; the leafits are spear-shaped, unequal-sided, con- spicuously eared on the upper side, and truncate (maimed) on the lower side at the base, with a broad, uncut centre and numerous teeth. The fronds are of a leathery texture, with both sides nearly naked. The very prominent VOL. III. ^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - col
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