. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1885. Details of sporophylls of Polystichum acrostichoides. ff, sori; b, iudusium. well in living-rooms. All the species have also been described under the genus Aspidium. For culture, see Ferns. A. 1/VS. simply pinnate throughout. B. Lower pinnce gradually reduced to mere lobes. Lonchitia, Roth. {Aspidium Lonc


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1885. Details of sporophylls of Polystichum acrostichoides. ff, sori; b, iudusium. well in living-rooms. All the species have also been described under the genus Aspidium. For culture, see Ferns. A. 1/VS. simply pinnate throughout. B. Lower pinnce gradually reduced to mere lobes. Lonchitia, Roth. {Aspidium LonchMis). Holly Fern. Lvs. 9-20 in. long, rigid, the pinnae broadly lanceolate- falcate, the lowesttrian- gular. North Europe and America, mostly in high latitudes. EB. Lower pinnce scarce- ly if any stnaller than those above. acrostichoides, Schott (Aspidium acrosticho- ides, Swz.). Christmas Fern. Figs. 1885, 1886. Growing in dense crowns, with stalks 6-8 in. high, the pinnae lin- ear-lanceolate, some what falcate, and serrulate with appressed teeth; spire-bearing pinnag contracted, with con- fluent snri. Eastern United States. — One of our commonest species. munitum, Kaulf. (^.v- p id i u m m u n 11u m, Kaulf.). Stalks4-12 in. long, chaffy at base or through- out; pinneelong, linear-acuminate, serrate ordoubly ser- rate; sori in a single row midway from midrib to mar- gin. Utah northward and westward. lepidocaWon, Hook. Stipes densely clothed with large, heart-shaped scales: lvs. short, with 12-15 pairs of pin- nae, unequal-sided, scarcely toothed: sori usually in two rows. Japan. AA. Lvs. jvitJi auricles of pin^iCB forming distinct leaf- lets. viviparum, P^e. Lvs. 12-18 in. long, 4-6 in wide, with numerous lanceolate pinnae; lower basal margin ob- liquely truncate; sori in 2 or 4 rows. West Indies. AAA. Lvs. hipinnate in the lower two-thirds. c. Pinnules auricled. acule^tum, Roth. {Aspidium aculedtum, Swz.). Lvs. 2 ft. or more long, 6-8 in. wide; pinnules twice as long as wi


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