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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



P. (Goniophlebium) Scouleri — Go-m-oph-leb'-l-um ; Scou'-ler-i 



(Scouler's), Hooker and Greville. 

 This greenhouse species, in general habit much resembling our common 

 Polypody, is a native of North-west America. Eaton, in his exhaustive work 

 on " Ferns of North America," states that, in the vicinity of Mount Shasta 

 and Crescent City, California, and northwards to British Columbia, it is found 

 growing on trees and stumps, less frequently on the ground. Its simply- 

 pinnate fronds, borne on firm, naked stalks 3in. to 4in. long, are produced 

 from a stout, wide-creeping rhizome clothed with spear-shaped scales of a rusty- 

 brown colour. They are Gin. to 12in. long, 4in. to Sin. broad, and cut down 

 to the rachis into closely-set, blunt leaflets of a very leathery texture, dark 

 green, and naked on both sides. The very large and prominent sori (spore 

 masses) are found mostly on the upper leaflets, or sometimes towards the 

 ends of most of them, and disposed in a single, regular row on each side 

 of and close to the midrib. — Hooker, Species Filicum, v., p. 19. Hooker 

 and Greville, Icones Filicum, t. 56. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, 

 iii., p. 193. Eaton, Ferns of North America, i., t. 26. 



P. sechellarum — se-chel-la'-rum (from the Seychelles), Baker. 



A small-growing, stove species, of purely botanical interest, with strap- 

 shaped, pendulous fronds of a rigid and somewhat leathery texture, thinly 

 clothed on both surfaces, especially at the edge, with fine, soft, brown hairs. 

 It is a native of the Seychelles and Mauritius. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 508. 



P. Seemannii — See-man'-m-i (Seemann's). A synonym of P. blechnoides. 



P. (Phymatodes) selligueoides — Phy-mat-o'-des ; sel-li-gue-o-i'-des 

 (Selliguea-like), Baker. 

 This small-growing, stove species, native of New Caledonia, is of little 

 decorative value, as its spear-shaped fronds, sharp-pointed at their summit and 

 gradually narrowed at the base, are seldom more than 6in. in length and barely 

 lin. in breadth. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 513. 



P. sepultum — sep-ul'-tum (inclosed). This is a variety of P. lepidopteris. 



