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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rent, with club-shaped apices. On the upper side of the frond, immediately within themargin, a row of white deciduous scales. Usually eight or nine pairs of segments, with a terminal one. Sori large and conspicuous, uniserial; colour bright yellowishbrown; mostly about twenty-eight to thirty-two pairs on eachsegment. Length of frond three feet; colour a milky green. Stipes very smooth, brownish green, half the length of thefrond, and having few long white scales near the base. Fronds lateral, being articulated on a thick, glaucous, scaly,creeping rhizoma. For plants of this species I am indebted to Mr. Henderson,of Wentworth; and for fronds to the same gentleman, and toMr. Norman, of Hull. It may be procured of the following Nurserymen:—Masters,of Canterbury; Yeitch, of Chelsea; A. Henderson, of Pine-applePlace; Stansfield, of Todmorden; Kennedy, of Co vent Garden;Kollisson, of Tooting; Osborn, of Fulham; and Booth, of Ham-burg. The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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