. 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. 144 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. more or less deeply cleft, of a leathery texture, and naked on botli surfaces. The copious oblong spore masses are usually disposed one to each lobe at the base.—Hooker.^ Species Filicum, iv., p. 230. P. (Goniophlebium) grandiceps — Go-ni-oph-leb'-i-um ; gran'-dic-e
. 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. 144 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. more or less deeply cleft, of a leathery texture, and naked on botli surfaces. The copious oblong spore masses are usually disposed one to each lobe at the base.—Hooker.^ Species Filicum, iv., p. 230. P. (Goniophlebium) grandiceps — Go-ni-oph-leb'-i-um ; gran'-dic-eps (large-headed). Baker. A stove species, of dwarf habit and well suited for basket culture, native of Formosa. Its simple (undivided), oblong-spear-shaped fronds, of a leathery texture, are produced at intervals on a slender, creeping rhizome ; they are about 6in. long and lin. broad, and taper below into a narrow wing.— Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 592. P. (Goniophlebium) grandidens — Go-ni-oph-leb'-i-um ; gran'-did-ens (large-toothed). This is a variety of P. persiccefolium. P. (Phymatodes) grandifolium — Phy-mat-o'-des ; gran-dif-ol'-i-um (large-fronded). A variety of P. membranaceum. P. (Phymatodes) Griffithianum—Phy-mat- o'-des ; Grif-fith-i-a'-num (Griffith's), Hooker. This distinct, greenhouse species, of medium dimensions, is a native of Northern India. Accord- ing to Beddome, it is found in Bhotan, Mishmee, and Khasya, and is said to occur up to 7000ft. elevation. Its simple (undivided) fronds, Gin. to Sin. long and IJin. to 2in. broad, are produced from a wide-creeping rhizome densely clothed with rough, dull brown scales, and borne on firm, erect stalks Sin. to 6in. long. They have their edges prettily undulated, and are sharp-pointed at their summit, while they are rounded or rather narrowed or auricled at their base. The large and conspicuous sori (spore masses) are disposed in a row near the midrib, and situated one between each main v
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