. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Asplenium Hemionitis. world where ferns grow. Within the limits of the genus every variety in size, in texture, and in the cutting of the frond is comprised, most of the species being evergreen, and a large proportion of them highly desirable and ornamental plants. At present the species formerly classed under the genera Tham- nopteris, Hemidictyiim, Anisogonium, Diplazium, Athyrium., and Darea, are included in Asplenium., which now numbers about 350 species. In the vast majority the veins are free, simple, or branched, and the sori are linear or linea
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. Asplenium Hemionitis. world where ferns grow. Within the limits of the genus every variety in size, in texture, and in the cutting of the frond is comprised, most of the species being evergreen, and a large proportion of them highly desirable and ornamental plants. At present the species formerly classed under the genera Tham- nopteris, Hemidictyiim, Anisogonium, Diplazium, Athyrium., and Darea, are included in Asplenium., which now numbers about 350 species. In the vast majority the veins are free, simple, or branched, and the sori are linear or linear-oblong, the involucre being the same shajje as the sorus. Now and then the sori are more or less curved ; sometimes, indeed. STOVE KBSTDS. A. alatum is a handsome species from the West Indies and tropical America; from a thick lieshy crown it produces an abundance of pleasing light green pinnate fronds, which gi'acefully arch over, and render the plant a thoroughly suitable one for culti- vation in baskets. A. auritxim has also bright light green pinnate fronds, from a foot to a foot and a halt in length ; in addition to the countries given for the last-named species, this is also found in the Neil- gherries, in Bourbon, and in Madagascar. One of the most handsome and distinct of all the Aspleniums is A. Belangeri, fi-om the Malayan peninsula, 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 Fish, David Taylor, 1824-1901; Fish, D. T. (David Taylor), 1824-1901. London ; New York : Cassell
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