. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. C. HcoJceri is a very distinct and peculiar species from the forest of Singhe Eajah, Ceylon ; it is a slender tree-fern with, a trunk not more than an inch and a half in thickness, and short black rough stipes, surmounted by elongate-lanceolate acuminate pinnate fronds, two to three feet long by four or five inches in width. C. insignis has large handsome finely-cut fi-onds of a leather}' texture, glabrous, deep dark green above and glaucous beneath: except in the stout- est parts of the stipes it is quite free from scales, and in this parti- cular dif
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. C. HcoJceri is a very distinct and peculiar species from the forest of Singhe Eajah, Ceylon ; it is a slender tree-fern with, a trunk not more than an inch and a half in thickness, and short black rough stipes, surmounted by elongate-lanceolate acuminate pinnate fronds, two to three feet long by four or five inches in width. C. insignis has large handsome finely-cut fi-onds of a leather}' texture, glabrous, deep dark green above and glaucous beneath: except in the stout- est parts of the stipes it is quite free from scales, and in this parti- cular differs mark- edly from its allies. It is a native of Jamaica (where it occurs on St. Cathe- rine's Peak at an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea- level), Cuba, and Mexico. C. medullaris, from Xew Zealand, is one of the com- paratively few ferns which are impor- tant from a purely economic stand- point. Its trunk attains a large size and a considerable height, and con- tains a soft mucila- ginous pulp, which is largely used by the Maoris as an article of food. Of course, to obtain the pulp large trees have to be cut down and destroyed. In the AVinter Garden at Kew there is a remarkably fine specimen of this species planted out in one of the beds : it was presented by the late Prince Consort, in 1856 ; it has twice or thrice-pinnate, dark green, leathery fronds, and stout glaucous-black stipes. C. sinuata, a rare species from the wooded moun- tains of Ceylon, is, according to Baker, if not among- the smallest, certainly amoug the most elegant and i^Taceful of Cyathaceous plants, and the only one we know with quite simple fronds. It has a slender caudex—about an inch in diameter—not more than of elongate-lanceolate wavy fronds, two to three feet long and an inch to two and a half inches wide. Caliivat'ion.—The general remarks on the culti- vation of JJicksoyiias apply equally well here. Of the species mentioned, C. dealhata and medallaris do thoroughly well in a cool hou
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