The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . in habit and size resembles our native Polypody. To the species described on pp. 445-7, Vol. I., the followingshould be added : D. aculeata (prickly), rhiz. creeping, stout, fibrillose. sti.(including rachis) 4ft. to 6ft. long, strong, scandent, spinose-rtexuose. Jronds tripinnatifid ; lower pinnre 1ft. to l^ft. long. 6in. broad, ovate-lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate, 2in. to ,, lin. broad; segments iin. broad, cuneate, deeply two- tofour
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . in habit and size resembles our native Polypody. To the species described on pp. 445-7, Vol. I., the followingshould be added : D. aculeata (prickly), rhiz. creeping, stout, fibrillose. sti.(including rachis) 4ft. to 6ft. long, strong, scandent, spinose-rtexuose. Jronds tripinnatifid ; lower pinnre 1ft. to l^ft. long. 6in. broad, ovate-lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate, 2in. to ,, lin. broad; segments iin. broad, cuneate, deeply two- tofour-lobed. sort small, cup-shaped, terminal. West SVN. Steiwloma aculeata. D. assamica (Assam). rhiz. sttmt, wide-creeping, denselyclothed with light brown scales, sti. naked, lin. to 3in. 6in. to ISin. long, spear-shaped, tripinnatifid; pinn*shortly stalked ; pinnules crowded, naked on both surfaces, tioridisposed close to the margins of the ultimate lobes; involucres asbroad as deep. Rhotan. Stove. Syns. Acrophont^ asf^a m ica. D, brachycarpa (short-fruited). A form of B. gibberot> Fio. 319. Pavallia canariensis. D. ciliata (ciliated), rhiz. creeping, densely covered with soft,brown hairs, sli. firm, erect, 3in. to 4in. Ions, hairy, fronds lift, lona;, 6in. to Sin. broad, spear-shaped, tripinnatifid, thinand papery, the rachis and under-surface softly hairy, sort verysmall, disposed two to twelve in a pinnule, and placed near thecentre of the teeth near the base. Philippine Islands. Stove.(H. S. F. i., p. 134, t. 60a.) Syn. Microlepia ciliata. D. cristata (crested). A synonj-m of C. strigosa. D. elata (tall). A form of D. ctc^aiis. D. elegans polydactyla (raauy-fingered). This differs from thetype in the many-finRered, dilated apex of the frond, and of thepinnie, which are all nmltifldly divided or crested in such amanner as to give the plant an extremely ornamental D. epipbylla (upon a leaf). This s
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