FERNS BRITISH AND EXOTIC V02, LOWE

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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.



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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.

1

109

Polypodium morbiUosum
mussefolium

lii

113

xix

41

nitidnm

xii

27

Owariense

xxix A

61

palustre

V

9

li

111

pectinatum

Ix

129

peltideum

xlvi

101

Iviii

125

pennigerum
percussum

cuspidatmn

XXV

53

proliferum

decumanum

xiv

31

propinquum

iv

7

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

3

xxii

47

.

.

iii

5

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

.

1

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

POLYPODIUM PARADISEJE.

2

Native of the West Indies, Brazil, and

St.

Catharine's Island.

was introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the year
1841, having been received from the Koyal Gardens of Berlin.
Easily propagated from divisions of the creeping rhizoma.
It

Very

slender

pubescent fronds,

lanceolate-elongate

in

form,

sub-pinnate, with linear segments, nearly horizontal, (or at rightangles to the main stem,) narrowing both to base and apex.

Stipes very short, in a

frond three feet in length only one

inch and a half long.

Length of frond from two

to

five

feet.

In a frond thirty-

four inches in length there were eighty-three pairs of pinnse.
E-achis

the

tail

and

stipes blackish

brown, hirsute, and much resemble

of a mouse.

Fronds articulated on a scaly creeping rhizoma.
Sori uniserial, terminal, about twenty-four pairs on each pinna,
occupying nearly all the frond. Colour orange yellow.

For plants of this species I am indebted to Mr. Clarke,
Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasgow; and to Messrs.
Rollisson, of Tooting; and for fronds to Mr. J. Henderson, of
Wentworth; Mr. Smith, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew;
Mr. Norman, of Hull; and Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray.
It may be procured of Messrs. A. Henderson, of Pine-apple
Place; Booth, of Hamburg; Rollisson, of Tooting; Kennedy, of
Covent Garden; and Sim, of Foot's Cray.

The

illustration is

from a plant

in

my own

collection.



lOLVrODIUM
1

T

RICH ODES

1- VOL.

2.


Portion of mature

rOLYPODIUM
Reinwardt.

Smith.

J.

PLATE

Lastrea Kunzei,

Sypolepis

tricliodes,

Lastrea paludosa,

As2ndium

uliginosiim,

Frond— under

TRICHODES.
MoaRE and Houlston.

Kunze.

IT.

side.

VOL.

II.

Of Gaedens.
Fee.
Of

GrAEDENS.

-ScHOTT. M.S., (not of

Newman

or Bkaun.)

Polypodium

—Polypody.

A MAGNIFICENT,
fronds.

be

It

Trichodes

—Hair-like.

delicate-looking, large Fern, with vivid green

should be in every collection, and should especially

cultivated

as

an exhibition plant.

It

requires

shade,

as


POLYPODIUM TRICHODES.

4

sunshine very speedily blanches

its

large

but delicate fronds.

Easily cultivated, yet requiring abundance of pot-room.

An

evergreen stove Fern.

Native of the East Indies.

Polypodium
Gardens,

Kew,

tricliodes

in

came up spontaneously

at

the

Royal

the year 1849.

Fragile fronds bi-tripinnate, with linear-lanceolate pinnae, and
pinnatifid pinnules, with bluntly-lobed rather ovate segments.

Length of frond usually from three to five feet; my plant
has fronds five feet and a half in length, which are naked
for two feet.
Stipes and rachis covered with a silvery green fine powder,
hairy, with reddish brown scales, which are thickly scattered
near the base, becoming thinner upwards.
Fronds terminal, being adherent to a stout somewhat creeping
rhizoma. Stipes scaly, and very much so near the base.
Sori round, medial; brownish in colour.
The pinnules, when young, are broad and flat, yet when
more mature contract by curling downwards. The midrib of
the branches fluted.

To

the ordinary observer the P. trichodes

is

not

much

unlike

Asplenium filix-fcemiiia in general appearance.
This species must not be confounded with Lastrea tdiginosa
of Newman, which is said to be a variety of L. cristata.
For plants I am indebted to Mr. Moore, Curator of the
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 Royal Gardens, Kew.
a giant

It

is

in the Catalogues of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea;

of Tooting;

Stansfield,

of

RoUisson,

Todmorden; Sim, of Foot's Cray;

and A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place.
The illustration is from a young frond, from a plant in

own

collection.

my



.

;:)!

UM VERKUCOR

m

-VOL.

-2.

';

M,


Portion of Pinna of mature

Frond— under

side.

POLYPODIUM YEREUCOSUM.
Lowe.
PLATE

VOL.

III.

Goniojphlehium verrucosumf

J.

II.

Smith.

MOOEE AND HOULSTON.
Polypodium

—Polypody.

Verrtccosum

—Full

FeE.

of Warts.

In the Section Goniophlebium of Authors.

This
it

truly magnificent

Fern

is

has very few rivals in elegance

aware that

it

has

garden besides that

An

hitherto
at

been

scarcely ever seen, although

of habit, indeed I

introduced into

am

not

any other

Kew.

evergreen stove species.

Native of the Islands of Philippine and Singapore.
Slender pendulous fronds, which are pubescent in
degree;

the form of the

a

slight

frond lanceolate-acuminate; the form

of the pinnae oblong-acuminate, undulated, slightly serrate, base

rounded and articulated with the rachis.
Sori uniserial, immersed deeply, forming elevated protuberances
on the upper surface of the frond.


POLYPOUIUM VERRUCOSUM.

b

Length of frond from four to five feet; colour brilliant green.
Kachis and stipes scaly, and being articulated on a creeping
rhizoma.
I

my

have not been fortunate enough

to

procure a plant,

but

thanks are due to Dr. Hooker and Mr. J. Smith, for fronds.

As

yet the present rare species

is

not to be procured from'

our Nurserymen.

The

from a mature frond
warded by Dr. Hooker, of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
illustration of three

pinnse

is

for-



POLTPODTI^M DECURRENS,
IV-VOL.

2.


Portion of Pinna of mature

Frond— upper

side.

POLYPODIUM DECUEEENS.
Kaddi.

PLATE
Polyjpodium Braziliense,
"

simile,

CyrtopJilehium decurrens,

Cam^pyloneurum

"

Camjpylonevron

"

Tolypodium

—Polypody.

IV.

Kunze.

VOL.

II.

SCHOTT.

M.

S.

Spkengel.
J. Smith. Moore
Link. Peesl.
Fee.

Decurrens

& Houlston.

—Leaf-bordered-5^ew w

ed.

In the Section Cyrtophlebium of Authors.

The Polypodium

decurrens of Eaddi

rendered a striking
veins of

of the

its

fronds.

Gardens, for

an interesting Fern,

marking of the
It does not appear to be the P. decurrens
Kaulfuss remarks that it is the Tardea
object

Africana of Willdenovv.

An

is

evergreen stove Fern.

from the

distinct


;

POLYPODIUM DECURRENS.

8

Found growing

woods in Brazil.
Introduced into the Koyal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1841
having been received from the Royal Gardens of Berlin.
Fronds glabrous, somewhat erect, pinnate, the pinnae being
in

lanceolate-acuminate in form, narrow,

membranous, decurrent
rachis.

at

the

six

to

ten

inches

long;

and extending down the

base,

One-third of the stem naked.

Length of frond from twenty-four

to thirty-six inches; colour

pale green, with dark green club-headed veins.
Sori terminal, and pale straw-coloured.

Articulated with a scaly creeping rhizoma.

For plants of this species I am indebted to M. Schott, Director
of the Royal Gardens of Schonbriinn, near Vienna; and to Mr.
Clarke, Curator of the Royal Gardens, Glasgow; and for fronds
to Mr. J. Henderson, of Wentworth; and to Sir William Hooker,
Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.

It may be procured of Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting; and
Messrs. Booth, of

The

illustration

Hamburg.
is

from a plant in

my own

collection.