. 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. 480 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. about midway between the edge and the midrib. Fig. 117 is reduced from Col. Beddome's "Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Zrooy(:er, Sj)ecies Filicum, iv., p. 113, t. 251. Beddome, Ferns of British India^ t. Fig. 117. Frond of Nephroclkim Brunonianum
. 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. 480 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. about midway between the edge and the midrib. Fig. 117 is reduced from Col. Beddome's "Ferns of British India," by the kind permission of the author.—Zrooy(:er, Sj)ecies Filicum, iv., p. 113, t. 251. Beddome, Ferns of British India^ t. Fig. 117. Frond of Nephroclkim Brunonianum (i nat. size). N. (Lastrea) Buchanani—Las'-tre-a ; Bu-chan'-an-i (Buchanan's), BaJcer. A distinct, stove species, native of Bourbon and Natal, with fronds deltoid (shaped like the Greek delta, A), 1ft. to 2ft. each way, quadripinnatifid (four times divided nearly to the midrib), and borne on tufted stalks Gin. to 12in. long, brownish at the base, straw-coloured upwards, and densely clothed with narrow, dark brown scales. The lower leaflets, also deltoid, are the largest and unequal-sided ; the others are equal and spear-shaped : all are of a moderately firm texture, naked on both surfaces, and of a bright green colour. The final lobes are strap-shaped and blunt, and are faintly toothed on the outer edge. The rather large sori (spore masses) are disposed along the midveins, and are not found on the lower part of the pinnules (leafits) ; they are covered by a smooth involucre of a persistent nature.—Hooker, Synojjsis Filicum, p. 499. N. (Lastrea) canum—Las'-tre-a ; ca'-num (hoary), Baker, A greenhouse species, somewhat resembling the better-known N. molle, from which it is mainly distinguished by being slenderer in all its parts.— Hooker, Syiiopsis Filicum, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the or
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