Ferns British and exotic Author:Edward Joseph Lowe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: POLYPODIUM AFFINE. Martens And Galliotti. Leibmann. PLATE L. VOL. II. Goniopteris afflnis, Polypodium—Polypody. Of Gakdeus. Affine—Eelated... more ». A Fern scarcely known amongst cultivators. A greenhouse species. Galliotti found it on the Volcano 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. Pinnate, with three to five pairs of inch-wide divisions, with a terminal one. The divisions profoundly dentate. Habit almost erect; fronds short and broad, and somewhat crumpled. Rhizoma horizontal and creeping, about as thick as a finger, covered with membranaceous undulated reddish pellucid scales. Length of frond twelve to eighteen inches; width from four to six inches; colour heavy dull green. My thanks are due to Mr. R. Sim, for a frond of this species. It is only in the Catalogue of Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray. The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. : L . i o n i u M A u a i T - M. Ll-VOL. 2. POLYPODIUM AURITUM. Lowe. PLATE LI. VOL. II. PJiegopteris aurita, Gymnogramme aurita, Grammitis aurita, J. Smith. Hooker. T. Moobe. Polypodium—Polypody. Attritum—Eared. In The Section Phegoptekis Of Authors. A Species but little known. An evergreen stove Fern. Native of the East Indies. The fronds, which are pinnate, are somewhat lanceolate in form, being widest in the centre of the frond, narrowing both to the base and apex. Pinnae pinnatifid and linear-lanceolate; apex acuminate, su...« less