Ferns in their homes and ours Author:John Robinson 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: LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. Frontispiece. — Corner of the writer's greenhouse, with Bitch- num Brasiliense in centre; Lomaria gibba and Platyctrium alcico... more »rnc below. The bell-glass covers a pan of Trichomanes radicans. Hanging-baskets to the left. Ficus repens on the wall, and Selagi- nellas, Adiantums, and Panicum variegatum in foreground. Young plant of B. Brasiliense at lower right-hand corner, and directly above it Nephrodium setigerum. PLATE I. — Out-of-door fernery. PLATE II. —Notholana dealbata, Kunze. Plate III. — Growth of a fern (Pteris serrulata, Lin. /.) from the spore (figs. 5-18), as compared with that of a squash from the seed (figs. 1-4). i, squash-seed; 2, the same with one cotyledon removed, showing the plumule; 3, the same in longitudinal section to show plumule and radicle; 4, the same after one week's growth; Pteris serrulata (after Moore), 5, spore; 6-9, growth of prothallus ; 9 a, antheridia; 9 b, archegonia; 10, two antheridia enlarged, the one at the right empty; i.i, one cell of antheridium containing a single antherozoid; 12, antherozoid enlarged; 13, archegonium, longitudinal section to show germinal vesicle; 14, the same seen from above; 15, plant-bud starting underneath the prothallus (after Sachs); 16-18, various stages of young plant's growth. Plate IV. —Pellaa densa, Hk. Plate V. — Fern-structure (after Smith, Sachs, Hooker). I, enlarged spore-case of Polypodium; 2, ditto of Gleichenfa; 3, ditto of Schizcea; 4, sorus of Polypodium; 5, spore-case of Osmunda, enlarged; 6, sorus of Marattia, enlarged; 7, sorus ot Aspidium, enlarged; 8, portion of a frond of Gymnogramme, enlarged to show the fruiting; 9, fruit of Pten's; 10, stem of Pteris; a, frond of the present season; b, frond for next season; c, continuation of stem ; d, the l...« less