. 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. CHAPTER IX. CYSTOPTERIS, Bemhardi. (Cys-top'-ter-is.) Bladder Fern. HE name of this small genus is derived from kystis, a bladder, and a Fern, evidently in allusion to the nature of the indusium (covering) of each spore mass being inflated like a bladder. In Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis Filicum" Cystopteris forms
. 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. CHAPTER IX. CYSTOPTERIS, Bemhardi. (Cys-top'-ter-is.) Bladder Fern. HE name of this small genus is derived from kystis, a bladder, and a Fern, evidently in allusion to the nature of the indusium (covering) of each spore mass being inflated like a bladder. In Hooker and Baker's "Synopsis Filicum" Cystopteris forms Genus 19, and it is closely allied to Woodsia and Microlepia. It is composed entirely of elegant and somewhat fragile Uttle Ferns, and has its headquarters in the Temperate Zone of both hemispheres. All the species have their fronds twice or three times divided, of thin texture, and with veins free. The distinguishing characters of the genus, however, reside in each sorus (spore mass), of a roundish form, being placed on the back of the veins and provided with a nearly globular involucre of a mem- branous (thin and more or less transparent) nature, which is inserted by its broad base under the sorus, and at first covers it hke a hood. Culture. Notwithstanding its being small, this genus, which is composed of only four species and a few varieties, is nevertheless very interesting, inasmuch as, with the exception of the essentially North American C. hiilbifera^ all others are indigenous to this country and well adapted for planting in the outdoor Fernery, where shady and well-drained spots should be selected for them,. 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 : L. U. Gill
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