NEPHRODIUM. 



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occasionally as much as 3ft. long and 1ft. broad, are borne on naked, 

 straw-coloured stalks fully 1ft. in length ; the lobes of their closely-set 

 pinna3 (leaflets) are narrower than in N. Montanum^ and the sori (spore 

 masses), which fill up the greater part of the space between the midrib and 

 the edge, are covered with small, ciliated involucres. — Hooker^ Synopsis 

 Filicum, p. 270. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 442. 



N. (Lastrea) Parishii — Las'-tre-a ; Par-ish'-i-i (Rev. C. S. Parish's), 

 Hooler. 



A very distinct, stove species, of comparatively small dimensions, native 

 of Moulmein, where it is said to grow on limestone rocks in shady, moist 

 places. Its fronds, borne on slender, naked stalks 6in. to 9in. long, are 



f/g. 756, Frond of Nephrodium Parishii 

 (\ nat. size). 



deltoid (in shape of the Greek delta, A), 6in. to Sin. each way, their lower 

 leaflets being much the largest (Fig. 136, reduced from Col. Beddome's "Ferns 

 of British India," by the kind permission of the author). The pinnules 

 (leafits), oblong- spear- shaped, IJin. to 2in. long, and Jin. to fin. broad, are 

 cut down nearly to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) into close, crenated 

 (notched) lobes of a parchment-like texture. The sori (spore masses) are 

 disposed in rows not far from the midrib. — Hooker, Sjjecies Filicum, iv., 

 p. 131, t. 260. Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 43. 



