. 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. ALSOPHILA. 341 Principal Species and Varieties. A. aculeata—ac-u-le-a'-ta (prickly), J. Smith. This very effective, stove species, which is also known under the name of A. ferox, is found widely distributed through the whole of Tropical America and the West Indian Islands. Though somewhat coarse-looking, it is an elegant F
. 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. ALSOPHILA. 341 Principal Species and Varieties. A. aculeata—ac-u-le-a'-ta (prickly), J. Smith. This very effective, stove species, which is also known under the name of A. ferox, is found widely distributed through the whole of Tropical America and the West Indian Islands. Though somewhat coarse-looking, it is an elegant Fern, remarkable for the lengthy, sharp thorns with which its trunk is profusely armed, and which extend in a lesser degree to the. Fig. 50. Alsophila aculeata (much reduced). entire length of the stipes (stalks) of its fronds, which frequently attain from 5ft. to 7ft. in length. These fronds are tripinnate (three times divided to the midrib) and have their rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) of a brown colour. The pinnae (leaflets) are ovate-lanceolate (between egg- and spear- shaped), lft. to lift, long, and furnished with stalkless pinnules (leafits) of thin texture, of a dark green colour, deeply pinnatifid (divided half-way to their midrib) and dented (Fig. 50), and the small and abundant sori (spore. 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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