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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



T. (Feea) botryoides— Fe'-e-a ; bot-ry-o-i'-des (bunch-like), Kaidfuss. 



This species, also known as Feea nana, produces from its somewhat 

 upright, tufted rootstock, barren and fertile fronds, which are totally distinct. 

 The former, 2in. to 3in. long, lin. or more in breadth, and borne on very 

 short stalks, are deeply cleft to a slightly-winged stalk, their extremity rooting 

 and very proliferous. The fertile fronds are lin. to 2in. long and narrow ; 

 usually their upper part only is of a leafy nature. — Hooker, Species Filicum, 1, 

 p. 115. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 80. 



T. brachypus— brach'-yp-us (short-footed), Kunze. 



Partly-decayed wood suits this species, which is a native of Tropical 

 America, being found from the West Indian Islands southward to Peru 

 and the South of Brazil. Its long, wide-creeping rhizome, of a wiry nature, 

 produces nearly stalkless fronds Sin. to 6in. long, 1 Jin. broad, and cut 

 down to a broadly- winged stalk into oblong, blunt, nearly entire, and very 

 transparent leaflets. — Hooker, Species Filicum, i., p. 121. 



T. breYipes— brev-ip'-es (short-footed), Baker. 



The rhizome in this Philippine Islands species is woolly and provided 

 with numerous short-branched rootlets. Its broadly egg-shaped fronds, almost 

 stalkless and 2in. to 3in. long, are fully pinnate or have their rachis 

 slightly winged at the summit ; their lowest leaflets are again deeply cleft 

 into narrow segments of a very transparent nature. — Hooker, Synopsis 

 Filicum, i., p. 140 ; Icones Plantarum, t. 705. 



T. brevisetum — brev-is-e'-tum (having short bristles). Synonymous with 

 T. radicans. 



T. capillatum — cap-il-la'-tum (hairy). Synonymous with T. bipunctatum. 



T. caudatum — cau-da'-tum (tailed), Brackenridge. 



An elegant little species, native of the Fiji Islands, Tahiti, and New 

 South Wales. It is closely allied to the better-known T. tenerum, from 

 which, however, it is readily distinguished through its stronger habit, its 

 darker colour, and its broader though more divided leaflets. — Hooker, 

 Synopsis Filicum, p. 85. 



