. 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. 402 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. L. Plumieri—Plu-mi-e'-ri (Plumier's), Desvaux. A stove species, of large dimensions, native of Tropical America, where it is said to be abundant and to extend from the West Indies and Columbia southward to Rio Janeiro and Peru. Its massive, oblong-spear-shaped barren fronds, 2ft. to 3ft. long
. 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. 402 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. L. Plumieri—Plu-mi-e'-ri (Plumier's), Desvaux. A stove species, of large dimensions, native of Tropical America, where it is said to be abundant and to extend from the West Indies and Columbia southward to Rio Janeiro and Peru. Its massive, oblong-spear-shaped barren fronds, 2ft. to 3ft. long and 9in. to 12in. broad, are abruptly terminated at the base ; they are furnished with numerous and some- what leathery, spreading leaflets 4in. to Bin. long, Jin. to fin. broad, cut down very nearly to the base, with flat edges, and sharp-pointed at their extremity. In some of the forms the leaflets are nearly equal at the base : in others they are few in number and conspicuously dilated. In the fertile fronds, the leaflets, often vari- ously curved and dilated at the base, are 4in, to Gin. long and only |in. broad.— Hooker., Species Fllicum, iii. p. L. procera—pro-ce'-ra (tall), Sprengel. This very handsome, greenhouse species, of large dimensions and much given to variation, is a plant with a very wide range of habitat, being found in Mexico and the West Indies southward to Chili; in the Malayan and Polynesian Islands ; in New Zealand, South Australia, Tasmania, and South Africa. According to their various habitats, these forms or variations are of a more or less hardy constitution, some being well adapted for growing outside and. unprotected in many parts of the West of England. In the typical species, the barren fronds, which are divided quite to the midrib (Fig. 99), are borne on stout, upright stalks, 6in. to 12in. long and Fig, 99, Barren Frond of Lomaria procera (i nat. size).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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