. 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. 332 777^ BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. S. Y. Malcomsoniae—Mal-com-son'-i-a3 (Miss Malcomson's), Stansjield. A fine form, originally found at Clonmel by the lady to whom it is dedicated. The normal part of its fronds is divided into two parts at the base, and about 2in. below the summit they branch again
. 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. 332 777^ BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. S. Y. Malcomsoniae—Mal-com-son'-i-a3 (Miss Malcomson's), Stansjield. A fine form, originally found at Clonmel by the lady to whom it is dedicated. The normal part of its fronds is divided into two parts at the base, and about 2in. below the summit they branch again into a large, nearly circular head ; they become narrower near the summit of each tip and then expand into a large, dense, hand-like head, with narrow lacerations.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. 768. S. Y. marginatum—mar-gin-a'-tum (edged), Moore. It may appear strange that such a distinct and singular form should have been found in so many localities ; but, according to Lowe, it was first dis- covered at Nettlecombe, then near Sel- worthy, in Somerset; at Ilfracombe and Combe Martin, Devon ; at Enys, Penryn, Cornwall; at Littlehampton-, Sussex ; at Stroud, Gloucestershire ; at Grassington, Yorkshire ; in the Isle of Wight, and in Guernsey. Its erect fronds, about Ift. long and lin. in breadth, are of a very thick texture and dark green in colour ; their margins are a little wavy and lobed, the lobes being blunt-toothed. On the under-surface, nearly parallel with the midrib, but somewhat nearer to the margin, are two skin-like lines, which, in fertile fronds, break up into ragged, projecting points Jin. long, rather closely set and spore-bearing ; the fertile parts are on and outside of these lines only.—Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., fig. 609. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 394. Druery, Choice British Ferns, p. 140. Of the numerous sub-varieties of S. v. marginatum in cultivation, the most distinct are: marginato-irregulare, marginato-multiceps, and mar
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