Species Filicum
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: late entire or rarely obscurely lobed serrulate only at the acuminated apex, veins everywhere copiously anastomosing, sori oblong numerous approximated eventually confluent forming a continued series or chain close to the costa on each side and frequently in the slightly-lobed specimens at certain distances sending out nearly opposite pairs of sori even where there is no distinct costule (so that the segments present to the eye a pinnatifid line of fructifications from the base to the apex), involucre vaulted but submembranaceous, cavity of the sori indistinct.?Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 7, and in Florula (Ferns) of Hongkong, Kew Card. Misc. ix. p. 341. Hab. Hongkong, among long grass and low bushes, Harland, Lorraine, ff'il- ford, n. 15. A very remarkable and very beautiful Woodwardia, fully described and figured in the ' Filices Exotics' above quoted. It was first received from the lamented Dr. Harland, a gentleman who, had he lived, would have done much for the promotion of the Botany of China and Japan. Woodwardia dixpar, Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 419, is a name given to an imperfectly known Fern of Martinique, figured by Plumier, Fil. t. 16.] 5. Doodia, Br. (HooK. Gen. Fil. Tab. XXIV. A.) Woodwardia, Metten. Sori oblong or sublunulate, in one or more series, arranged transversely, with the veins forming areoles which are superficial, not sunk. Involucres membranaceous, of the same form as the sori, opening towards the costa and lying parallel with it. Veins prominent beneath, free, except where they anastomose for the production of sori, simple or forked.?Caudex a subglobose, small rhizome, rarely erect subcaulescent. Fronds sometimes subdimorphout, fascicled, rather membranaceous than coriaceous, subasperous, erect, small, a span to 1-2 feet, lanceolate, pinnate or pinnatif...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217055895 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217055893 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $23.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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