. 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. CHAPTER XX. TROCHOPTERIS, Gardner. (Troch-op'-ter-is.) Wheel NLY one species of this genus is at present known in herbaria, and, so far as we are aware, it is not in cultivation. Trochopteris is a division of the sub-order Schizceacece, and forms in Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Fili
. 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. CHAPTER XX. TROCHOPTERIS, Gardner. (Troch-op'-ter-is.) Wheel NLY one species of this genus is at present known in herbaria, and, so far as we are aware, it is not in cultivation. Trochopteris is a division of the sub-order Schizceacece, and forms in Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum" Genus 67. The name is derived from trochos, a wheel, and pteris, a Fern, in allusion to the appearance of the plant, the fronds of which resemble the leaves of a Geum, and are disposed in a dense, rosulate tuft. The distinctive characters of the genus reside in the habit of the plant, which resembles a dwarf Anemia, but with fertile and barren parts of the fronds not distinct, and in the disposition of the fructification, the capsules being small, stalkless, and placed irregularly round the edge of the under-side of the slightly-contracted lower lobes of the leafy fronds. The plant not being grown in Europe, we cannot give any information respecting its culture. T. elegans—e'-leg-ans (elegant), Gardner. A stove species, native of South Brazil and Cuba. Its fronds, lin. long and little more than Jin. broad, are borne on very short stalks ; they are lyrate-pinnatifid (having several pairs of small lobes with deep depressions between them), of a soft, papery texture, and hairy on both surfaces. The upper lobes are rounded and not deep, and the lowest pair reach down nearly to the midrib and have laciniated edges.—Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 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 Sc
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