. 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. CHEILANTHES. 37 cut clown to the midrib into entire, narrow-oblong segments, on both edges of which the numerous small and roundish sori (spore masses) are uniformly disposed.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 73, t. 88b. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 514, C. chusana—chu-sa'-na (from Chusan). Synonymous with C
. 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. CHEILANTHES. 37 cut clown to the midrib into entire, narrow-oblong segments, on both edges of which the numerous small and roundish sori (spore masses) are uniformly disposed.—Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., p. 73, t. 88b. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 514, C. chusana—chu-sa'-na (from Chusan). Synonymous with C. mysurensis. C. Cleve-land'-i (Eucheilanthes) Clevelandi — Eu-cheil-anth'-es (Cleveland's), Eaton. A very handsome, greenhouse species, native of North America, where it is popularly known as " Cleveland's Lip ; According to Eaton, it was discovered in 1874 on a mountain about forty miles from San Diago, Cahfornia, at an elevation of about 2500ft., and in the San Bernardino range a year later. Its pretty and delicate-looking fronds, 4in. to 12in. long and borne on tufted, erect, scaly stalks, are produced from a creeping rootstock nearly as thick as a goose-quill, several inches long, covered with closely-pressed, rigid-pointed, nearly black scales ; they are tri- or quadri- pinnate (three or four times divided to the midrib), -with the ultimate divisions of the leaflets nearly round (Fig. 8), small, deep green above, and covered with fine white scales beneath. The numerous sori (spore masses) are disposed in inter- rupted series on the edges of the segments. —Eaton, Ferns of North America, i., Gardening, i., p. Fig. 8. Cheilanthes Clevelandi (i nat. size) t. 12. Nicholson, Dictionary of C. (Physapteris) contigua—Phy-sap'-ter-is ; con-tig'-u-a (contiguous), Baher. A greenhouse species, of medium dimensions, native of Port Darwin, North Australia, and closely related to the well-known C. tenuifolia, from which it. Please note that these images are
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