. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. ONYCHIUM. 19 freer in growth and producing its fronds in greater abundance than any other (Fig. 6). These, however, are of a semi-deciduous character, 1ft. or more in length, 6in. broad, egg-shaped, and quadripinnatifid (four times divided half- way to the midrib). The lower leaflets of the barr
. 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 and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. ONYCHIUM. 19 freer in growth and producing its fronds in greater abundance than any other (Fig. 6). These, however, are of a semi-deciduous character, 1ft. or more in length, 6in. broad, egg-shaped, and quadripinnatifid (four times divided half- way to the midrib). The lower leaflets of the barren ones are 4in. to Gin. long, broadly-spear-shaped, and furnished with numerous, usually triangular, pinnules (leafits) and segments. Contrary to those of 0. auratum, the segments in this species, both fertile and barren, are uniform, being all narrow-Hnear, a little tapering below, and gradually sharp- pointed. The fronds are pro- duced from a short - creeping rhizome (prostrate stem), and borne on slender, erect, naked, straw-coloured or pale brown stalks Gin. to 12in. long; they are of a somewhat leathery texture and of a bright, shining green colour on both sides—hence the common garden name of lucidum. This useful species is a native of Japan, China, and Northern India (ascending in Sikkim to 10,000ft. elevation), and Hooker states that the plant common in Japan does not differ from the ordinary Himalayan form. The sori (spore masses), of a bright brown colour, are covered with a pale involucre of a parchment-like texture, and occupy nearly the whole under-surface of the segments. According to the authors of the " Synopsis Filicum," " 0. capense, Kunze, seems to be this, reported from South Africa by ;—Rooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 144 ; Species Filicum, ii., p. 122. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. Fig. 6, Onychium japonicum (i nat. size). 0. lucidum—lu'-cid-um (shining). A garden name for 0. jajjonicum. c 2. Please note
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