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QoT FERNS: V X- BEHISH AND VOLUME EXOTIC II CONTAINING POLYPODIUM, IN CONTINUATION STRUTHIOPTERIS NEVRODIUM HYMENOLEPIS V ITT ARIA CERATOPTERIS BY E J LOWE, ESQ., F.E.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., Hon Mem Dublin Nat Hist Soc, Mem Geolog Corr Mem Lyceum Nat Hist., New York, Corr F.Z.S., M.B.M.S., Soc Edinb., Mem Manchester Lit and Phil Soc, etc LONDON: GEOOMBEIDGE AND SONS, 5, M DCCC LVIII PATERNOSTEE ROW P O LY PO D I n M i^ I-VOL A RA D I S E 5£ TO HIS GRACE HENEY PELHAM-FIENNES-PELHAM CLINTON, K.G., RC, DFKE OF NEWCASTLE, LORD-LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, A NOBLEMAN UNIVERSALLY BELOVED FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORTH, THE "NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND EXOTIC FERNS" IS BY HIS WITH PERMISSION DEDICATED grace's most OBEDIENT SERVANT THE AUTHOR CONTENTS Plate Polypodium affiue amplum OF VOL 11 Page 109 Polypodium morbiUosum mussefolium lii 113 xix 41 nitidnm xii 27 Owariense xxix A 61 palustre V li 111 pectinatum Ix 129 peltideum xlvi 101 Iviii 125 pennigerum percussum cuspidatmn XXV 53 proliferum decumanum xiv 31 propinquum iv pulvinatiiTn liv 117 piistulatum xxxvi 77 quercifolimn XXXV 75 refractum xxiii 49 repens appendiculatum areolatiiTn attenuatum aureum auritum colpodes concinnum coronans decurrens decussatum dictyocallis dissimile divergens drepaniTm formosum glaucum 71 simplex A 19 spectabile xvii 37 sporadocarpum scolopendroides squamulosum submarginalis xxxvii B 81 subpetiolatiim xxviii 59 terminale xxvii 57 trichodes xl 87 vacillans xxxix 85 xvi 35 Ixi 131 xlvii 103 XXX 65 lycopodioidcs xxvi 55 mcniscifolium xiii 29 integrifoliiiTTi KarwinskianiurI latipes lepidopodum longifoliiiTTi longissimum loriceum 33 43 39 Ivii 123 Ivi 121 viii 17 X 23 xlviii 105 ix B 21 A 79 lix 127 A 89 xH B 91 xliii 95 vi 13 xxix B 63 xlix 107 xi 25 xliv 97 ii xxii 47 iii Ixiii 137 Germanica Nevrodium lanceolatum Ixiv a 141 Hymeiiolepis spicata Ixiv B 145 Vittaria lineata ; 93 XV XX verrucosum Struthiopteris xlii xli 15 insequale 45 xviii 119 xxi xxxvii Iv Hendersoni xxxiii i 115 99 vii hastsefolinm xlv liii hemionitideum 133 saccatum harpeodes Ixii rigidum ix 67 51 83 xxxi xxiv 73 gracilis 69 Paradisese xxxiv Page xxxviii filipes Plate xxxii zostcra'folia Ceratoptcris tlialictroidcs Ixv A 149 Ixv B 151 Lxvi 155 EREATA IN YOL Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 7, for 9, II Tardea Africana, read Todea Africana Martyn, read Martens read Schiede for iT/r Stewart, read Jir Stratton for 13, for Schiedi, 24, 39, Foli/podium proUferum, add of Roxburgh and Walltch 67, for Achrostichum, read Acrostichum 68, for P ireoides, read P 109, for GalUotti, read irioides Galleotti FERNS; BEIIISH AND EXOTIC —under Portion of mature Frond side POLYPODIUM PARADISE^: LA^'GSDORFF AND FlSCHER HouLSTON Willdenow Link PLATE I Polypodium Paradisioe, " An in CHARMING VOL Hooker II G-ardens, {not of Willdenow.) Paradisece species, with a rough-looking —Paradise dark green frond upright grower, although a slender-looking fructification the frond is handsome, the An to be met with in the better collections evergreen stove Fern VOL II B Fern sori golden in appearance Only Kaulfuss Fee Of otites Polypodium —Polypody A MoORE AND KUNZE When being very VITTARIA ZOSTER^FOLIA 152 As it is only yet to be seen at with regard difficult to to its cultivation, or Kew, as to I am unable to speak whether it is easy or manage For fronds of this Fern I am indebted Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew It is not in any Nurseryman's list The illustration is from Mr Smith's frond to Mr J Smith, 153 CERATOPTERIS GENUS CERATOPTERIS Only is a single species a water Fern, and is will IX Buongniart in cultivation in this country thrive well if plunged to It the rim of the plant in a tank of water Fronds fragile; the fertile fronds decompound; the segments forked and linear; margins revolute and membranaceous Veins transversely elongated and distantly anastomosing Sori disposed subparallel sori in a simple series, constituting two linear C ?: R A TnpT F; ? T S TH f) T n 7, P Portion of fertile Frond— uuder CERATOPTEEIS Brongniart side THALICTROIDES Hooker and Bauer PLATE LXVI VOL Smith Ellohocarpus oleraceus Kaulfuss LiNNiEUS tJialictroides, Pteris thalictroides, " esculenta, " BUEMANN LlNN^US BUEMANJS" Desvaux SWAETZ WlLLDENOW Of Gaedens e-ichaeds ferulacea, Smith Mooee & Houlston Ceratopteris ParTceri, J Parkeria pteroides HOOKEE AND BaUEE Ceratojpteris-^-T]ie The Horn Fern Thalictroides —Allheal is a most singular Fern growing in stagnant pools in hot climates Ceratopteris thalictroides a water-plant, Presl II Acrostich um thalictroides, " siliquosum, Furcaria Link It is The CERATOPTERIS THALICTROIDES 156 and the stag's-horn looking fronds peculiar habit of the plant, render An it an interesting plant evergreen stove Fern Native of the American Meridian, Asia, the and China It was raised from spores in the year 1834 Barren and fertile fronds different; glabrous Sterile fronds bipinnatifid, reclining, having East Indies, oblong-obtuse segments Fertile fronds contracted considerably; habit erect, three or four times pinnate, having linear-revolute segments Length of barren frond from twelve to eighteen inches; fertile fronds from twenty to thirty inches; colour light green Sori linear, continuous, parallel, and superficial Sori hid by the reflexed margin of the segments Veins transversely elongated and distantly anastomosing Stipes nearly quadrangular Both barren and C Parkeri only spore-case, yet as fertile fronds are viviparous differs in regard to the elastic spring of the Mr Smith has spores of C Parkeri, it cannot be raised C thalictroides from distinct I have received plants of this Fern from Mr J Henderson, of Wentworth It is in the Catalogues of Messrs Sim, of Foot's Cray; E G Henderson, of St John's Wood; Veitch, Jun., of Chelsea; A Henderson, of Pine-apple Place; and Kennedy, of Covent Garden The illustration is from a plant in my own collection — 157 CONTRIBUTORS The author begs to thank the TO following YOL individuals suppHed plants and fronds for Messrs Booth and Son, !Nursery- men, Hamburg Mr Clarke, Boyal Botanic Gardens, Mr E Cooling, I^urseryman, Derby Mr E J Grray, St Thomas', Exeter Mr T Downs, Hillsboro' Terrace, Gardens, Chelsea Oswald Mosley, Sir Bart., tinghamshire Henderson and Co, Pine-apple Place, Edgeware E-oad, London Mr Joseph Henderson, Wentworth A Mr G Norman, Hull Messrs Eollisson and Co, Nursery, Tooting, near London Schott, Director of the Imperial Mr Dr Hooker, F.E.S., Eoyal Gardens, Kew J Smith, Curator of the near Chisselhurst, Kent Mr Stansfield, Yale Nursery, Tod- morden Stratton, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Messrs Veitch, Jun., Hooker, Eoyal Gardens, Eoyal Gardens, Kew Mr E Sim, Foot's Cray Nursery, Mr House, Yorkshire J EoUeston Gardens, Schonbriinn,nearYienna Miss FeUows, Beeston Field, Not- W kindly Mr Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Botanic M Dfracombe Mr Haythorn, Nottingham Sir who have illustration: Hall, near Burton-on-Trent Griasgow Messrs 11 Exotic Nur- sery, Chelsea Kew Mr Masters, Exotic Nursery, Canterbury GLOSSAEY FOE VOL The II., terms not explained wiU be found in in the II other Glossaries and used the Glossary which accompanies Vol V in Vol 158 AUTHOKITIES Bauer, Blume Bonpland Bory Braun Browu, E QUOTED IN VOL 11 Heward Hoffmann Hooker Petiver Honlston Plukenet Morison, VV Newman Humboldt Plumier Jacquin Presl Brongniart Karst Eaddi Burmann Kaulfuss Eeinwardt Cameron, D E-ichard Cavanilles Kunth Kunze Christie, J Langsdorff Schlechtendal Cunningliam, A Lawrence, Mrs Schkuhr Schiede Desvaux Leibmann Schott Don Linden Shepherd, H Fee Link Sieber Fischer Linna3us Smith, J Forster Loddiges, Messrs Smith, J E Galleotti Lowe, E Spicer, Gardner Martens Sprengel Greville Metten Swartz Gunn Meyer Mig Moore WaUich Henderson, J Henderson, A J W Sweet AVilldenow W INDEX TO VOL 11 [Those Ferns having an authority attached, are the respective names adopted in Work, of which a description, together with a Coloured Illustration and one or more Woodcuts, are given Names not having an authority attached, are those adopted by other authors, and are therefore to be found under other names.] this PAGE PAGE Acrosticbum alatum 67 , 68 155 siliquosum spicatum 145 tlialictroides 156 Anapeltis lycopodioides Artliropteris filipes Aspidium conciunnm Dictyopteris attenuata coronans hemionitidea integrifolia leorliiza rigidum 79 lycopodioides nitidum Ceratopteris Parkeri thalictroides 21 percussa Brongniar t dictyocallis lipidopoda peltidea pulvinata sporadocarpa terminale VOL II 53, 69 43 67 , propinqua 123 pustulata quercifolia 131 156 rubida 103 77 Furcaria tbalictroides 35 Glapbyropteris 93 Goniophlebium appendiculatum colpodcs 13 , 27 dissimile 97 glaucum Y 17 23 Ellobocarpus oleraceus 31, 121 54 55 revoluta 155, 156 Clirysopteris aurea morbillosa musaefolia 155, 156 57 93 51 51 141 51 latifolia 61 69, 125 15 51 CampyloneYTon decurrens 51 repens 51 61 Drymoglossum lanceolatum Drynaria Browniana 21 phyllitidum Campyloneunim decurrens mtidnm 15 repens 83 73 Cyrtophlebium decurrens nitidum Dictymia attenuata 101 drepamim uligmosnm Asplenium filix-foemina Campyloneuron nitidum 55 101 contermina Colysis liemionitidea 156 grammicum 117 41 129 71 75 INDEX 160 PAGE PAGB Goniophlebium harpeodes ina?quale • 37 Nevrodium lanceolatum 59 Onoclea nodulosa Fee 141 137 140 spicata latipes 85 loriceum 65 mcniscifolium 29 Osmunda 29 Parkeria pteroidea 156 133 Pbegopteris ampla 113 neriifolium owarense verrucosiira 109 affinis gracilis pennigera prolifera refracta decussata 117 divergens 49 drepanmn 73 33 bast?efolia 119 39 spectabilis 95 107 submarginalis submarginalis Grammitis aurita dictyocallis 131 111 lycopodioides Gymnopteris revoluta 145 multiseriale 145 percussuni spicata 15 Hemionitis plantaginea 145 Hyalolepis revoluta Hymenolepis ophioglossoides revoluta spicata Presl Hypolepis trichodes contermina pulvinatum 55 43 31, 121, sporadocarpum Pbyllitidis bemionitidea Pbymatodes branca?folium coronans 77 145 Lastrea concinna 77 145 145 31 10, 59 aurita inajquale longifolia 27 9, decumanum 89 111 Gymnogramme 107 Phlebodium areolatum aureum subpinnata 101 19 98 scolopendroides 137 105 137 strutbiopteris concinna 47 vacillans Goniopteris strutbiopteris 122 13 9, 15 17 69, 125 53 cuspidata 101 leiorbiza 101 longifolia 53 131, 132 103 cristata longissima Kunzei morbillosa 69 paludosa peltidea 93 stipulata 117 uliginosa Lomaria 145 spicata 123 propinqua 17 pustulata 127 saccata 97 37 termiualc latipes 85 Pleopeltis aurea loricca 65 cuspidata 53 Menisci um dentatum 99 latifolia 93 palustre 99 lycopodioides 55 proliferum 39 99 musa?folia 67 Marginaria harpeodes serratum 91 simplex Microsorium longissimum Microsonim irioides, var 103 57 43 percussa Mariens 109 Polypodium aiTme amphmi Humboldt 113, 114 augustifolium 80, 81, 82 INDEX IGl PAGE Polypodium appendiculatum Linden Polypodium hemionitideum Wallich 41 Humholdt areolatum 13, 27, 28, Broivn attenuatum 31 heracleifolium 61 hastatum 10, insequale avenium 13, 31, 77, 78, 122 43 baccilare 47 irregulare 36 Karwinskianum latipes Billardieri brancaefolium Brasiliense Brownianum caripense 17 61 37, 47, 85 17, 18 Kunze colpodes concinnum 107, 109 Catlierinse coespitosum 10, 129, 130 contiguum corcovadense Don cuspidatum melauoneuron 43, 53, Willdenow Raddi decussatum Linnceus Lowe Kunze dictyocallis dissimile distans Domingense effusum extensum formosum glabelliim Raddi glaucum Raddi gracilis Lowe grammicum hastatum owariense 73 palmatum 50 palustre 95 ParadiscEe 83 Paradisiac 19 117 115 37, 47, Swartz 89 13, 71 85 103 15 LAnnceus 29 95 67 Presl 125 69, 49 Blume Kaulfuss 67 58 99- Loice 45 120 Preslianum 119 propinquum 33 43 93 proliferum 10, 23, 36, Loioe Wallich 45 Cavanilles phymatodes 119, 1, Linnceus Kunze pcltideum 133 percussum platyotis 133 Langsdorjf pennigerum Lotve 51 Desvaux pectiuatum plumula nitidum otites 55 115 mussefolium 36 65 multifidum ovariense 55 10, morbillosum 50 1]5, 116 LAnk harpcodes hastsefolium grande 49, Loive filipes 107 49, Lowe depranum microsonim 75 Willdenow divergens 31 77, 78 58, 103 Linnaeus meniscifolium microdonton 117 131 29, membranaceum 54 31 Linnceus majus-aureum decumanum decurrens 131 115 53 Link longifolium Lowe longissimum Blume 69, 70, 87 65, 71, 85 longipes 68 58 Rraun lepidopodum macropterum^ 125, 126 59 57 Langsdorff leiorhizum 69 119 57, 58, 89 81 lycopodioides Wallich coronans 101 Willdenoto comptoniajfolium irioides loriceum Link integrifolium Lowe Linnceus 16 aureum 9, 15, Lowe Hendersoni 93 58 45 39 29 123 INDEX 162 PAGE Polypodium pulvinatum pustulatum PAGE LinJc 31, terminale Spt'engel 121, 122 tricliodes JReinwardt Forester 15, 36 trifidum quercifolium LinncBus 23, 69 triseriale ramosum vacillans 65 105 Fischer refractuin repandulum Swartz repeus Loice saccatum scandens Lotve Schkuhrii scriptum sessile simile verrucosum vulgare 79 Pteris esculenta ferulacea splendidum 17 lanceolata 17 thalictroides squamulosum subpctiolatum .156 156 141 Pteropsis lanceolata Pennsylvanica 58 141 95 lineata Kunze 122 linearis Todea Africana 63 U I-AWC'LTT, 149 149 141 graminifolia 149 151 149 Smith 149, 150 Zostera;folia Willdenow 151 lineata 25 END OF Vittaria angustifrons Langsdorff 107 HooTcer Tajnitis lanceolata 115 Willdenoio 137, 138 Tseniopsis graminifolia 91 13, 27, 28, 31, submarginalis 73 156 137, 138 90 Sprengel sporadocarpum Polystichiim drepanum 42, 87 Struthiopteris Germanica Willdenow Loice spectabile Lowe LinncBUs 89, simplex 47,85 134 vaccinifolium 127 58 59 Link 21 41 scolopendroides 3,4 47 19,20 reptans rigidum 97 VOL KNOKAVEU AND II rill.NTI.K, UUllUKLU ... COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM, A NOBLEMAN UNIVERSALLY BELOVED FOR HIS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORTH, THE "NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH AND EXOTIC FERNS" IS BY HIS WITH PERMISSION DEDICATED grace's most OBEDIENT... proUferum, add of Roxburgh and Walltch 67, for Achrostichum, read Acrostichum 68, for P ireoides, read P 109, for GalUotti, read irioides Galleotti FERNS; BEIIISH AND EXOTIC —under Portion of... Chelsea Botanic Gardens; and to M Schott, the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Schonbriinn, near Vienna; and for fronds to Mr Henderson, of Wentworth; and to Mr Smith and Dr Hooker, of the