. 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. 310 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. S. dichotoma—dich-ot'-om-a (repeatedly forked), Swartz. This is a stove species, native of Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, Australia, New- Zealand, Malaysia, the Neilgherries, &c. The fronds, fan-like in general outline, Gin. to 9in. each way, and many times forked, are borne on firm, erect, glossy
. 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. 310 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. S. dichotoma—dich-ot'-om-a (repeatedly forked), Swartz. This is a stove species, native of Cuba, Venezuela, Peru, Australia, New- Zealand, Malaysia, the Neilgherries, &c. The fronds, fan-like in general outline, Gin. to 9in. each way, and many times forked, are borne on firm, erect, glossy stalks 6in. to 18in. long, channelled on the face above. The fertile segments show from four to ten spreading spikes on each side.— Hooker and Greville, Icones Filicum, t. 17. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 383. S. digitata—dig-it-a'-ta (hand-shaped), Swartz. In this stove species, native of the Himalayas, Ceylon, and the Philippine, Malayan, and Fiji Islands, the stalks, brownish, and nearly cylindrical, pass gradually into the fronds, which are 2in. to oin. long, flattened, with the midrib prominent beneath, and crowned at the summit with fertile spikes ljin. long, naked beneath, with the capsules disposed in four rows and the edge much inflexed. Fig. 88 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of Southern India," by the kind permission of the author.—Hooker, Garden Ferns, t. 54. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 383. Beddome, Ferns of Southern India, t. 268. S. elegans—e'-leg-ans (elegant), Swartz. The habitat of this stove species extends from the Fig. 88. Schizasa digitata . ., , (nat size) West Indies and Mexico to Brazil, whence it was introduced in 1819. Its fronds, borne on firm, erect, naked stalks 6in. to 12in. long, are like the letter V in outline, 4in. to 8in. each way, and repeatedly forked or cleft, their divisions varying greatly in number and breadth. The fertile segments, distinctly stalked,, show from six to fiftee
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