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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



much smaller than the stalks on which they are borne, and which are of a 

 very slender nature. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 404. 



A. (Chry sodium) Lindigii— Chry-so'-di-um • Lin-dig'-i-i (Lindig's), Baker. 



A stove species, native of New Granada, with fronds 2ft. long, 1ft. 

 broad, and furnished with barren pinnae (leaflets) Gin. to 8in. long and 

 about l^in. broad, and fertile pinnae distant (set far apart), 4in. to oin. long, 

 but only ^in. broad, entire (uncut), and gradually narrowed upwards. — 

 Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 423. 



A. (Elaphoglossum) lineare— El-aph-og-los'-sum ; li-ne-a'-re (narrow), Fee. 



A greenhouse, Brazilian Fern, of purely botanical interest, much in the 

 way of the alread}^- described A. Aubertii (Au-ber'-ti-i). — Hooker, Synopsis 

 Filicum, p. 406. 



A. (Elaphoglossum) Lingua — El-aph-og-loY-simi ; Lin'-gua (tongue- 

 like), Raddi. 



This stove, West Indian species, with a firm, wide-creeping or long- 

 trailing rhizome (prostrate stem), covered with small, ovate (egg-shaped) scales 

 of a dark brown colour, dhTers from the better-known and already-described 

 A. latifolium (la-tif-ol'-i-um) mainly through its rhizome, its scales, and the 

 shape of its fronds, which are of a leathery texture, and are suddenly narrowed 

 at their base. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 402. 



A. (Gymnopteris) Linnaeanum — Gym-nop'-ter-is ; Lin-nae-a'-num 



(Linnaeus'), Hooker. 

 A stove species, native of the Malay Islands, of small dimensions and 

 of purely botanical interest, with thin, paper-like barren fronds, usually 

 proliferous at their extremity, and seldom measuring more than 9in. long, 

 including their short stalks. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 417. 



A. (Elaphoglossum) luridum— El-aph-og-los'-sum ; lu'-rid-um (lurid), 



Fee. 



This stove species, native of Trinidad and Guiana, of little decorative 

 value, is somewhat in the way of A. latifolium (la-tif-ol'-i-um), from which, 



