The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Fig. 14. Acrostichim mlscosum. Fig. 15. Acrostichum osmundaceum. A. osmundaceum. Fig. 15 shows this handsome American peltatum gracillimum (very slender), fronds larger andmuch more finely divided than in the t>pe, than which it is ofeasier culture. Stove or greenhouse. The tj^pical A. Peltatumis shown in Fig. Plumieri (Pluraiers). A variety of A. Prestoni (Prestons), rhiz. thick, woody, bin. to Bin. lon
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . Fig. 14. Acrostichim mlscosum. Fig. 15. Acrostichum osmundaceum. A. osmundaceum. Fig. 15 shows this handsome American peltatum gracillimum (very slender), fronds larger andmuch more finely divided than in the t>pe, than which it is ofeasier culture. Stove or greenhouse. The tj^pical A. Peltatumis shown in Fig. Plumieri (Pluraiers). A variety of A. Prestoni (Prestons), rhiz. thick, woody, bin. to Bin. long, covered with brownish-black fronds simple, lin. to l^in. long, 2in. broad, lanceolate,bordered on their whole length with a dense, persistent fringeof brown scales. Rio de proliferum (proliferous) A form of A. QiUoyanum. (Quoys). A variety of A. repandum (uneven), barren fronds very decorative, 2ft. long. Sin. to 12iu. broad, sometimes elongated androoting; pinnre numerous, soft in texture, the lower ones , lin. broad, fertile fronds having stalked, bowed pinnae2in. to Sin
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