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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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yal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1841,from the Poyal Botanic Gardens of Berlin. An evergreen stove species. Native of Brazil. Fronds pinnatifid, the pinnae being nearly entire, lanceolate-acuminate, scimitar-shaped, the lower ones standing forwards.Fronds glabrous, broadly lanceolate in form, nearly erect inhabit; articulated on a stout, scaly, creeping rhizoma.VOL. II. F 38 POLYPODIUM HARPEODES. Length from three to four feet; colour dull bluish green. Stipes nearly half the length of the frond. Veins much more indistinct than in P. CatJiarince. Sori uniserial, large, and yellowish brown in colour. For fronds of this species my thanks are due to M. Schott,of the Imperial Gardens of Vienna, and to Mr. J. Smith, curatorof the Royal Gardens, Kew. A plant sent from Hamburg, by Messrs. Booth, as this Fern,proved to be the P. Caiharince of Langsdorff and Fischer. It does not appear to be in any of the Nurserymens collections. The illustration is from the frond forwarded by Mr. Smith,of Kew. \
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lUM PROXVIII V Portion of barren Frond. POLYPODIUM PEOLIFEEUM. Lowe. PLATE XVIir. VOL. IT. Goniopteris proUfera,« (( Meniscium proliferum. Peesl. J. Smith. Fee. MOOEE AND HOULSTON.SWAETZ. Polypodium—Polypody. Proliferum—Proliferous. In the Section Goniopteris of Authors. A SINGULAR, straggling, free-growing Fern, bearing youngplants from the stipes of the fronds. These plants grow quitelarge fronds whilst on the parent stem, indeed the illustrationis one of these plants. I believe that it has never fructified inthis country. A stove species. Native of the East Indies. Introduced into England in the year 1820. Fronds pinnate, slender, pinnse membranous, oblong-acuminatein form, and pubescent; slightly cordate at the base, and havingthe margin crenate-dentate. Lateral, adherent to a creepingrhizoma. Length from twelve to thirty-six inches; colour dull green. 40 POLYPODIUM PROLIFERTJM. My thanks are clue to Mr. J. Henderson, of Wentworth, forfronds of this Fern. It is not in any of

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