. 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. PLATYCERIUM. 81 of March 6, 1875, p. 302, we extract the foUowmg : " Like its congeners, it is epiphytal, and protects its rootstock by the broad, roundish, imbricating bases of its barren fronds. The fertile fronds, which are produced in threes, issue from the growing point, situated in a
. 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. PLATYCERIUM. 81 of March 6, 1875, p. 302, we extract the foUowmg : " Like its congeners, it is epiphytal, and protects its rootstock by the broad, roundish, imbricating bases of its barren fronds. The fertile fronds, which are produced in threes, issue from the growing point, situated in a notch in the side of the round, close-fitting base of the sterile stem, and at once fall straight down to a length of 2jft. ; they are quite narrow in all their parts, the basal portion is upwards of 1ft. long, the branches are entire on one of their margins and repeatedly divided into numerous lobes on the other ; We may add that the whole plant is of a pale glaucous tint, and that the fructification occupies the terminal lobes only. See Plate.—Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iii., p. 158. PLATYLOMA—Plat-yl-o'-ma. See VOL. 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 original Schneider, George. London : Gill
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