HORTUS VEITCHII 



The rhizome, creeping and covered with bright brown scales, has 

 fronds 4 to 6 in. long, most delicately cut in segments, which, when 

 covered with the dew-like moisture essential to the growth of Filmy 

 Ferns, amply justify the specific name " plume-like " or " feathery." 



WOODSIA POLYSTICHOIDES, Eat., var. VEITCHII, Hook. 



Hooker's Garden Ferns, pi. 32; Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 399 (advt.). 



Found in Japan by the late John Gould Veitch. The narrow, almost 

 linear fronds, 6 or 8 in. or more in height, are pinnately divided, the 

 pinnae about 1 in. in length, linear-oblong, and distinctly auricled with a 

 row of sori near each margin, the surface above and beneath covered with 

 short close hair. 



WOODWAEDIA OBIENTALIS, Swartz. 



Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 399 (advt.) ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1862, p. 14. 



Eaised from spores sent from Japan by the late John Gould Veitch. 

 The fronds have on the upper surface, more or less profusely, bulbi- 

 form plants opposite the sori, sometimes sufficiently numerous to cover 

 the whole of the frond. 



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