112 STOVE FERNS. 



pinnated, contracted. Increased by dividing the scandent 

 creeping rhizome. It has been also called Lomariopsis sor- 

 kifolia. 



S'. SCANDENS (Climbing), Fig. 56. A handsome East-Indian 

 Fern, with the barren fronds pinnated, and each pinna or leaf 

 a foot long, and beautifully veined with a fleshy margin. The 

 fertile fronds are very curious, bipinnated; each pinna long, 

 like a whip, the upper end spreading out and covered with 

 spore-masses. Increased rapidly by division. 



There is one or two other kinds to be found in our 

 gardens, as S. Meyeriana, which appears to be a little different 

 from S. scandens, S. tenuifolia, and a variety of it called 

 natalensis, which are well adapted for clothing a damp wall 

 in the stove. 



STENOSEMIA. 



The name of this genus refers to the narrow contracted 

 character of the fertile fronds. There is only one species in 

 cultivation, and it is a very interesting small-growing plant. 

 The fronds are triangular in outline, dark green, deeply lobecl, 

 and producing young plants upon their surface. By pegging- 

 down one of these fronds a stock of young plants may soon be 

 obtained. The fertile fronds stand erect, among a cluster of 

 the sterile ones. 



T^ENIOPSIS. 



Of all the Ferns we have written about, this genus is 

 perhaps the most remarkable. The name is derived from 

 tainia, a strap, and opsis, like ; the fronds being exactly like a 

 long narrow strap. 



T.S::N T IOPSIS GBAMINIFOLIA (Grass-leaved), Fig. 57. A West- 

 Indian Fern of considerable beauty. The fronds are simple, 

 about 10 inches high, long and narrow like a blade of grass, 

 rather erect, but drooping at the end, with wavy margins, and 

 slender at the base. The spore-masses are in continuous lines 



