174 THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



where it is said to grow on branches of trees. It is provided with a rhizome 

 of a particularly stout nature, and densely clothed with narrow, crisped scales 



Fig. 51. Polypodium Meyenianum 

 (much reduced). 



Jin. long and of a bright rusty-brown colour. From these singular-looking 

 rhizomes are produced fronds 2ft. to oft. long and Sin, to 12in. broad ; their 



