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v.5 FERNS: BRITISH AM) VOLUME EXOTIC III CONTAINING ADIANTUM OXYCHIUM PLATYLOMA ALLOSORUS DORYOPTERIS, PTERIS, and IN PART BY E.J.LOWE, ESQ, F.R.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., Hon Mem Dublin Nat Hist Soc, Hem Geolog Soc Eclinb, Corr Mem Manchester T-.it and Phil Soc, etc M.B.M.S., etc., LONDON: GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, M DCCC LVII PATERNOSTER ROW I J.D.S TO HIS GRACE HENRY PELHAM-FIENNES-PELHAM CLINTON, KG., P.C DUKE 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 THE AUTHOB SERVANT : CONTENTS OF VOL III Plate Page Adiantum affiue assimile capillus-veneris 19 viiiA 21 Brownii XV ii a 39 calomelanos caudatum concinnum cultratum i intermedium lucidum lunulatum macrophyllum obliquum pedatum pubescens pulverulentum reniforme tenerum trapeziforme varium Wilsoni Onychium lucidum Platyloma adiantoides 73 83 falcata flexuosa XXX B XXV 71 geraniifolia xxvii 75 xxi 53 hastata xxxii 87 V 15 intramarginalis xii 31 rotundifolia vi 17 sagittata ternifolia 85 67 xxviii 77 xxivB 69 xi 29 49 Allosorus crispus xiiiA 33 Doryopteris collina XX ivA 51 palmata 11 pedata viiiB 23 sagitteefolia ivB 13 xiiiB 35 xiv 37 crenata ix 25 cretica xvii 45 grandifolia iiB X 27 iii longifolia xviii 47 serrulata xvi 43 tremula xxiii 63 umbrosa xxxiii 89 vespertilionis Pteris arguta xxxi xxiv A xix ]iispidulum 79 xxvi 55 xxix i cuneatum Cunningham curvatum formosum fulvum 81 xxii cristatum Plate Page Platyloma atropurpurea XXX A vii xxxiv 93 xxxviii 105 xxxvii 103 99 xxxvi 101 xli 115 133 xlviii 129 xliii 119 xlix 131 xlvi 125 biaurita Kingiana XXXV leptophylla xlvii 127 xlii 117 xl 113 xlv 123 xxx ix 111 xliv 121 ———— INTRODUCTION TO VOL At the particular solicitation of some III of the Subscribers to work, the plan of publication will be somewhat altered this Instead of finishing one division of Ferns before commencing a second, at the it is now proposed same time; for it is to publish three divisions of Ferns considered that the interest will be the different divisions will be so they will readily be bound up in volume will contain about and tions, consist of Vol the At the same time paged, that when completed, their proper volumes Each work being more increased by the varied 160 pages, and 75 coloured same number of wood-cuts The work will volumes I contain will Gymnogramma, Polypodium, Hypolepis, Nothoclcena, fyc Vol II Go?iiopteris, Goniophlebium, Niphoholus, bium, Phlebodium, Dry?iaria, Acrostichum, 8fc Vol illustra- III — Cheilanthes, Vol IV Platyloma, Adiantum, Cyrtople- 8fc Litobrochia, Pteris, Lomaria, Blechnum, Doodia, Woodivardia, Sfc Vol V Asplenium, Diplazium, Vol VI Aspidium, Nephrodium, Woodsia, Cystopteris, Las- Sfc trea, Polysticlium, Nephrolepis, 8fc Vol VII Davallia, Dicksonia, Cyathea, Lygodium, Anemia, Osmunda, 8fc It V is proposed to publish at the same time Vols Vol III commencing with the I, III, and Genus Adiantam, and Vol V commencing with the Genus Asplenium EEEATA IN VOL Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 5, for III Burman, read Burmann 9, for emineus, read eminens 9, for Klotzehianum, read Klotzschianum 47, for Klotzch, read Klotzsch Asplenium trapeziforme, read Adiantum trapeziforme for Bhillipense, read Philippense 53, for 56, 118, for Wollaston Hail, read Wollaton Hall Plate XXVII., for Geranifolia, read Geraniifolia Pinna of mature Frond— under GRANDIFOLIA PTERIS Plumier Linnaeus side Kunze, Schkuhr Sloane Pettver Presl, {not a/Pceppig, nor Schlechtendal.) Link PLATE XL1X VOL III Seterophlebium grandifolium, Smith Fee Pteris vittata, Schkuhr Litobrochia grandifolia, Pteris J — Brake Grandifolia Moore and Houlston —Large-leaved In the Section Litobrochia of Authors A large, handsome species, seldom lections, An A and whose chief attraction is to its be met with in col- boldness evergreen stove Fern native of the West Indies and Jamaica, St Domingo, and Martinica Introduced into England Fronds erect, in the year 1793 pinnate; pinna? membranous, glabrous, petiolatc, PTERIS GRANDIFOLIA 13£ linear-acuminate, about one inch broad, and eighteen inches long Rachis and stipes pubescent, lateral, adherent to a creeping scaly rhizoma Sori linear, continuous, and very conspicuous Length of frond from eight to ten feet; colour pale green I have not yet been able to procure a plant of this species My thanks are due to Mr Henderson, of Wentworth, for fronds This rare and magnificent species of any of our The not yet to be procured Nurserymen from a frond forwarded by Mr Henderson, illustration is of Wentworth is T- Portion of mature Frond PTEEIS Linn^us Fee —upper BIAURITA Kunze Plumier Hooker and Bauer, PLATE L III Smith J Pteris nemoralis, BlUME? —Brake Presl {not of Sieber.) VOL Campteria biaurita, Pteris side Mooee and Houlston (not of Biaurita WlLLDENOW.) — Two-eared In the Section Campteria of some Authors Some stood as evident confusion exists as regarding what Fern representing the that can be but true Pteris several species bear little An biaurita, name doubt that the present Fern P biaurita of Linnaeus It is a handsome free-growing cultivation in this is species, to as be underit appears However, there is that known as somewhat scarce in England evergreen stove species Native of the West Indies and Jamaica Introduced into the Royal Gardens, W Kew, in 1842, by Mr Purdie The fronds, which are glabrous, are triangularly elongate in PTERIS BIAURITA 134 and having lanceolate pinnae, which are deeply pinnatifid, petiolulate, with an entire caudate apex Lower pair of pinnae bipartite; segments linear, blunt, and sub-falcate their form, pinnate, Stipes slightly scaly near the base the frond Stipes half the length of Terminal, adherent to an erect fasciculate rhizoma Length of frond from three to four feet; colour pale green My thanks are due to Mr Thomas Moore, Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Gardens, for a plant of this species; and to Miss Carr, of Qualt Rectory, for It appears to fertile be only included in fronds the Fern Catalogue of Messrs A Henderson, of Pine-apple Place The illustration is from a portion of Miss Carr's frond Young Frond 135 GLOSSARY FOE VOL III [The present glossary contains descriptions of such terms as are not described Volume I It must therefore be considered a continuation of that given page 147 in the first Volume.] that for in at Having an upward direction towards the summit Having spaces distinctly marked out on the surface Antrorsehj Areoles Eared Auricled Divided into two lobes JBilobed Deeply divided into two Bipartite Thin, flexible, and membranous Chartaceous Continuous parts Substance tough or hard Cartilaginous sort "When there is no break from uniformity Cultriform Knife -blade shaped Decumbent Reclining, but having a tendency to rise at the extremity Somewhat Deltoid triangular Resembling Digitate "Weak Flaccid fingers or bending "When the green colour has a peculiar whitish-blue lustre Bending from without inwards Incurved Not continuous Interrupted sori Rough, produced by short, hard, stiff pubescence or Muricato- scabrous Glaucous scattered tubercles Orbicular Circular Hand- shaped Palmate Leaflets Pinnulets Pilose Hairy Plane Perfectly level or Turned back Reflected Sagittate Arrow-shaped Scabrous Rough Covered with Squamiferous Subterraneously Subtrilobate VOL When the rhizoma creeps underground Nearly divided into three "When the Trapezoid Trilobate scales Nearly halbert- shaped Subhastate Trilobed flat Resembling net-work Reticulated lobes sides of a four- sided leaf are unequal Divided into three lobes Divided into three lobes III T> 136 AUTHORITIES QUOTED IN VOL III Arnott Hoffmann Hooker, Dr Hooker, Sir Arrab Houlston Raddi Babington Raoul Bauer Honttuyn Humboldt Bernhardi Jacquin Rheed Blume Kaulfuss Richard Bolton Klotzsch Rupprecht Bonpland Kunth Kunze Sahsbury Bredemeyer Brown, R Labillardiere Schlechtendal Lamarck Schomburgk, Sir R Bnrmann Langsdorff Schott Le Schrader Agardli Aiton Bory Cameron, D Cantor, Dr Pratt J D W J Prieur Presl Purdie Retzius Schkuhr Cavanilles Leph Linden Chamisso Link Sinclair, Chapman Linnaeus Skinner Colenso L' Herminier Sloane Cunningham, Allan L' Hermonnier Smith, J Deakin Loddiges Sowerby Desvaux Splitzgerb Fee Loudon Lowe, E J Lowe, Rev H Mackay Martens Fischer Martius Tausch Forskahl Mc' William, Dr Thunburg Forster Miguel Tournefort Francis Vahl Galleotti Moore, Thomas Moricaud Gardner, G Newman WaUich Gaudichaud Gmelin Petiver Webb Plukenet Gray, A Plumier Willdenow Wilson Greville Pceppig Wollaston Henderson, J Poiret Don Edgerley, G Endlieher Seeman Sieber Dr Sprengel Spruce, R Stokes Swartz Villars H INDEX TO VOL III [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 is given.] this PAGE PAGE Acrostichum crispum Adiantum iEthiopicum Willdenow affine 93 21, 74 19, 29, 3, 31, Africanum amplum angustatum arcuatum 58 i asarifolium cultratum J 23 cuneatum Kaulfuss cuneifolium Cunninghami curvatum Kaulfuss 59 deflectens 39 deltoideum Linnceus 4, 29, 37, 39, 40, 42, 3, denticulatum digitatum diaphanum 41 dissectum Cardiochlcena 59 dolabri forme cassioides 59 dolosum caudatum rotundatum Linnceus 56, 57 Cayennense ciliatum 57 58 excisum filiforme 39 56 57 57 58 39 57 57 Edgeworthii eminens 57 58 dependens var 59 55, 58 delicatulum 58 58 23, 57 41 var multifidum 39 31, 17, 18, 41 var incisum 58 49, 59 decipiens capillus-veneris 15, 57 58 3, Hooker 59 capillus-gorgonis 57 53, 16, 22, 56 capillus Chilense Smith 58 51, 59 Linn 51, 55, 59 cristatum Cubense 58 39 crenatum 58 3, 37 Brasiliense capense coriandrifolium 7, boreale calcareum Hooker 4, 27, Swartz 21, assimile concinnnm .51 18, argutum 58 39 um 57 ixdex 138 PAGE Adiautum flagelliferam fal cat u i n fontanura flabellutatum B roton R formosum 57 39 Moritziauum 58 obliquuiu 29, 30, 31, 59 formosiasraia formosissiinum fovearum fragile fructuosum fulvum JRaoul 31, 49, fumarioides Galleottiauum giganteum Glaucescens glaueopliyllum Hamlvcauuru hastatum Henslovianum Hewardia liirtum hirsutum hispidulum Sicai iz 13, 39, 27 paradoxus parvuluui pateus 58 pedatum Linnceus 58 Peruviauuui 57 Philippense 29 Phy llitidis 5, platyphylluui 58 plicatum Swartz intermedium Pceppigiauum 87 politum 59 polypkyllum 56 priouophyllum 40 proximum 51, bo, 57, 59 Kaulfussii , Klotzschianum Kuuziauuui lancea , Le Prieurii Lindeoea pteridioides lobatam Lobbianum lucidum Hooker Lunatum 25 29, 33, 34 58 reuiforme Linnceus rliomboideimi 58 rigid uiu 58 rotuudatum Euizianum 23 23 maoroeladum maerophylhun rbizopliytum JJunnann 8toar >z 37 7, 56 59 39 57 9, 57 57 45 5(5 serrulatum ;li 55, 57 folium 57 59 Skepherdi siuuosum 59 57 Seemanni sctulosum IS 57 11, 35, 66 58 11 Pyrauiidale sea brum hinulatuni pomilom 58 59 pulveruleutum Linn 45, 57 15 57 11 52, 57 pulcliellum rcpaudum 56 25 Schkuhr rliizophorum 56 pubesceus 57 58 9, 56 59 5(3 laxum 8, 53 57 57 58 9, 57 18, 58 , incisum 37, 58 25 .1 34, 58 humile 79 59 peutadactylou 57 59 59 25 33, 41 IVilldenon 35, 57 obtusum papvraceum 51 59 45 52, 57 17 PAGK Adiautum microphyllum monosoratum 58 19, 31 57 soboli forum Mathewaiauum speciosum od INDEX 139 PAOK Adiautum striatum subcordatum sulphureum tenerum 58 • 58 » Sicartz 55 13, 27, 28, 29, 39, 59 tetragonum tetraphylluui trapeziforme 58 18, 47 Luinceus 9, 58 10, 19, 53, 51, 52, 57 triangulatum trifidum umbrosum Urophyllum varmm Hooker Hooker crispus 59 43, 56 91 89 81 91 73 61 91 65, 91, 93, 94, 95 crispidatus falcatus gracilis liastatus intramarginalis , paradoxus robustum , pedata Fee J sagittsefolia sagittifolia varians 97 97, 105 117 Hewardia Wilsoui Heterophlebium grandifolium 131 Filix latifolia Hypolepis repens Leptostegia lucida Litobrocliia biaurita 83 leptophylla 71 pedata 91 sagittifolia vespertilionis Lomaria 85 Nepkrodium molle 79 Ouoclea crispa Onycliium auratum 69 Japonicum i»7 lucidum .61 (51 (51 Sprengtl 61 93 melanolepia (51 123 121 99 101 127 133 131 97, 63 carvi folium 123 43 97 91 133 101 97, Chinense Campteria biaurita 97 101 Wallichii oheerophyllum Smith trifoliata 69 97 Baddiana 93 , 76, 97, 99, subverticillatus fraxiuifolia 101 103, 105 Stelleri ternifolius 97 97, 99, Prsealta 77 Anemia 97 100, 103, 105 carvifolium Smith capense sagittatus 91 97 67 rotundifolius 93 grandifolia 61 127 Smith 97, 100, 105 collina J 61 87 hirsutus 87 58 63 Doryopteris articulata J Bernhardt flexuosus var ciliatus crispa palmata cliseropkyllum Cryptogramma Brunonianus kastifolia, caloinelanos 91 57 Allosorus acrostichoides Brunonianus 47, 48, 51, atropurpureus villosum 46, 47, 48, 51, 55, 57 adiautoides spinulosa 45 Wilsoni hastata 55, 57 AVilesianum lucida 21 85 hastata vestitum Clieilantkes gracilis 87 inframarginalis cordifolia venustum 39 trigonum Cassebeera hastata (>1 61, (53 61, 68 6] INDEX 140 PAGE Onychium robustum Osmuuda crispa rupestris 61 Pellsea adiantoides atropurpurea calomelanos falcata geraniifolia Chinensis atropurpurea costata Brownii J calomelanos J cordata Smith J J Smith Sicartz cretica Linnceus 85 crispa 77 decomposita 108 69 decurrens 127 93 digitato-partita esculenta 108 79 falcata 114 Sf geranioides 84 84 grandifolia 65, 71, 65, Smith allinis , Yahl 103 multifida 10S nemoralis 108 palmata palustria atropurpurea 81 pedata 133 pedatoidea 73 Peiuviana 79 117 Linnceus 35 23 macrophylla 90 127 paradoza Linnceus Swartz 97 calomelanos leptophylla articulata biauiita 125 89, longifolia 85 108 lanuginosa 123 115, 116 Endlicher Kingiana lunata 85 iutramarginalis lucida arachnoidea arguta 115 90 aquilina 97 incompleta latizona 89, 73, 87, inframarginalis Houlston anisoloba 75 131 120 70, 73, 81 Ptcris adiantoides Linnceus heterodactylon latifolia 65, 69, 75 hastata 84 77 J ternifolia 83 71 65, 79, 67, 73, Moore geraniifolia sagittata 117 81 J 123 84 Smith 99 ensi folia 75 Lowe hastata Lowe 87, 89, 90 85 Lowe iutramarginalis rotundifolia 93 90 73, 77, 81 geraniifolia edulis 119, 120 flexuosa 129 crenata 87 falcatus var caudata flexuosa 117 65, 83, 77 71, 73, 81 77, falcata 61 105 75 129 89, Smith Smith Smith J 123 cordata Lowe chrysocarpa 83 Platyloma adiantoides 129 81 129 71 Phorolobus crispus Chinensis Chilensis 89 99 collina iutramarginalis ternifolia 93 chrysosperma sagittata clienopora 77 liastata 93 73 flexuosa 108 cordata TAGE Pteris caudata 89 113 133 108 75, 97, 115 79 75, 76, 97, 99 106 09 INDEX 141 PAGE Pteris platyphylla Pohliana 123 75 PAGE Pteris Stelleri 39 subverticillata polytoma 103 ternifolia recurvata 108 tenuifolia rotundifolius sagittsefolia sagittata sagittifolia serrulata var spinuiosa Linnceus 93 69 123 77 umbrosa H Brown 111, 114 97 varians trifoliata vespertilionis viridis 114 vittata 127 Stegania onocleoides 97 105 Labillardiere 114, 123 69 Brown tremula 113, minor JR 67 101 119 serrana 121 87 117, 119, 131 93 — 142 CONTRIBUTORS TO YOL III The Author begs to thank the following individuals, who have kindly supplied plants and fronds for illustration: Mr G H Allcock, Nottingham Mr Backhouse, York Miss Barker, Trent Lock, Beeston, near Nottingham Mr Booker, Matlock Messrs Booth and Son, Nurserymen, Hamburg Miss Carr, Qualt Rectory, near Bridgnorth, Salop Mr Clarke, Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasgow Mr Robert Clark, gardener to W Dent, Esq., Flass House, Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland Mr Downs, Hillsboro' Terrace, Ilfracombe Mr R J Gray, St Thomas', Exeter Mr Haythorn, Wollaton Hall, Notts Messrs A Henderson & Co., Nurserymen, Pine-apple Place, Edgeware Road, London Messrs E G Henderson, Wellington Nursery, St John's Wood, London Captain A S H Lowe, F.R.A.S., Highfield House, near Nottingham Mr Masters, Exotic Nursery, Canterbury Mr Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Gardens Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., Rollestbn Hall, near Burton-on-Trent Mr G Norman, Hull Messrs Parker, Nursery, Holloway Mr Pass, gardener to T Brocklehurst, Esq., The Fence, near Macclesfield Mrs Riley, Papplewick, near Nottingham The Rev J Robinson, Widmerpool, Notts Messrs Rollisson & Co., Nursery, Tooting, near London Mr Roper, Brighton M Schott, Director of the ImpeSchonbrunn, near rial Gardens, Vienna Mr J Smith, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew Mr J Sidebotham, Manchester Mr R Sim, Foot's Cray Nursery, near Chisselhurst, Kent Mr Stansfield, Vale Nursery, Mr Joseph Henderson, Wentworth House, Yorkshire Dr J D Hooker, F.R.S., Royal Gardens, Kew Mr Ingram, Royal Gardens, Windsor Mr Ingram, Belton, near Grantham .Mr Ingram, Belvoir Castle, near Grantham Mr J W Jeans, F R A S., Grantham Mr Jackson, Kcddleston Gardens, near Derby Mr James, Vauvert, Guernsey Mr Lamb, gardener to F Wright, Esq., Osmaston Manor, near Ashbourn Mr R T Millctt, Penzance END OF Todmorden Mr Stewart, Sudbury Castle, Staffordshire Mr Stratton, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge Messrs, Veitch, Exotic Nursery, Exeter Messrs Veiteh, Jun., Exotic Nursery, Chelsea Mr G B WolUston, Chisselhurst, Kent Mr Wraight, Newlnnds, Kent VOT, III ... XXVII., for Geranifolia, read Geraniifolia FERNS; BRITISH AND EXOTIC PTERIDE^E This extensive class J Smith of Ferns contains the genus Hypolepis, and handsome fronds; the genus Cheilanthes, a... 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... varied and handsome tribe; Adiantum, known generally as the Maiden-hair Ferns, the most delicate-looking of any tribe; Litobrochia, an extensive genus; Pteris, mostly large and elegant Ferns;