. 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 XIII. SCHIZ^A, Smith. (Schiz-ae'-a.) Comh or Rush HE name of this small, widely-difFased genus, composed of plants totally distinct in habit from all other known Ferns, is derived from schizo, to split, in allusion to the fan-shaped or multifid nature of the fronds of most specie
. 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 XIII. SCHIZ^A, Smith. (Schiz-ae'-a.) Comh or Rush HE name of this small, widely-difFased genus, composed of plants totally distinct in habit from all other known Ferns, is derived from schizo, to split, in allusion to the fan-shaped or multifid nature of the fronds of most species. In Hooker's "Synopsis Filicum" Schizoea forms Genus 64, and comprises plants with fronds terete (cyUndrical) or nearly so, with pinnate fertile segments and biserial capsules ; others with fronds distinctly flattened, pinnate fertile segments, and biserial capsules; and a few with fertile segments digitate (hand-shaped) rather than pinnate and quadriserial capsules. The distinctive character of the genus, besides the peculiar appearance of the plants of which it is composed, lies in the nature of the fructification, which consists of sessile (stalkless), two-valved capsules opening down the side, disposed in either two or four rows covering one side of close, distichous (two-rowed) spikes which form separate fertile segments at the extremity of the fronds. The genus belongs to the sub-order Schizceacece, which also embraces the better-known genera Anemia, Lygodium, Mohria, and Trochopteris. Schizcea has representatives in Cape Colony, New Zealand, various parts of Australia, North and South America, and the West Indies, where they are usually found growing in marshy places, but exposed to the action of light— a circumstance which may easily be accounted for by the rush-like nature of their Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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