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Identifier: fernsbritishexot02lowe (find matches)
Title: Ferns: British and exotic..
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lowe, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1825-1900
Subjects: Ferns
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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eresting Fern closely allied to Polypodium au-reum, Polypodium sporadocarpum, and another species figuredin Plate XII, f Polypodium areolatum.) The fronds are muchnarrower and more slender than Polypodium aureum, and notnearly so glaucous as that species. An evergreen stove species. Native of Jamaica, South America, and Brazil. Fronds glabrous, slender, pinnatifid, the segments being lan-ceolate-acuminate and membranous, slightly serrated on the edge, and from six to eight inches in length. Fronds lateral, articulate on a creeping scaly rhizoma.Sori uniserial, circular, and immersed. S2 POLYPODIUM DECUMANUM. Length of frond from two to three feet; colour light green. Introduced into England in 1818, and received at the RoyalGardens, Kew, in 1841, from the Berlin Royal Gardens. I am indebted to Mr. J. Henderson, of Wentvvorth, for aplant of this species. It does not appear in any of the Nurserymens Catalogues. The illustration is from a frond forwarded by Mr. J.Henderson, of Wentworth.
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