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acuminate anastomosing apex apices articulated barren frond base Booth Brazil Catalogues of Messrs Chelsea Chrysopteris collection Covent Garden cultivated Curator DRYNARIA OF AUTHORS evergreen stove Fern evergreen stove species fertile fronds Foot's Cray frond forwarded frond from twelve frond sent Fronds glabrous Fronds simple glaucous GONIOPHLEBIUM OF AUTHORS Goniopteris Hamburg HOOKER illustration indebted indusium Joseph Henderson KAULFUSS KUNZE Length of frond linear linear-lanceolate LINK LINNEUS Loddiges margin mature Frond-under side midrib MOORE & HOULSTON MOORE AND HOULSTON Native of Brazil Nurserymen's Catalogues Phegopteris Phlebodium Phymatodes Pine-apple Place Pinna of mature pinnæ pinnatifid pinnules plant and fronds PLATE PLUMIER POLYPODIUM Polypodium-Polypody Portion of mature PRESL procured of Messrs pubescent rachis Rollisson Royal Botanic Gardens Royal Gardens SCHKUHR Schott SECTION DRYNARIA SECTION GONIOPHLEBIUM SECTION PHEGOPTERIS SECTION PHLEBODIUM segments SMITH Smith's frond Sori uniserial SPRENGEL Stipes Stipes and rachis SWARTZ thanks are due Todmorden Tooting Veins Veitch Vittaria Wentworth WILLDENOW
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Page 109 - Orizaba, at an elevation of from nine to ten thousand feet, growing in oak and fir woods. Leibmann found it in the woods over Chinantha, between seven and eight hundred feet high, principally growing upon the oak trees. A very characteristic fact which authors do not speak of, and which is especially of importance in relation to this species, is the rhizoma.
Page 132 - Sori prominent, uniserial, submarginal, oblong, or oval, and formed on the upper two-thirds of the frond, extending nearly to the apex; about forty pairs; colour a brownish orange, and raising umbones on the upper side of the frond. Length from twenty to twenty-two inches; colour a bright shining green. Rhizoma creeping. This species has more the looks of a Scolopendrium than of a Polypodium.
Page 123 - It is a valuable addition to our stove Ferns. At present it is not however to be procured from our Nurserymen. My thanks are due to Mr. J. Smith, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew, for a frond of this Fern. It is not in any of the Nurserymen's lists. The illustration is from Mr.