The Handbook of British Ferns Author:Thomas Moore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Subjects: Nature / Plants Science / Life Sciences / Botany Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Milli... more »on-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: This fern is well adapted for planting on artificial rockwork, and among rustic work formed of the stumps of old trees, especially delighting to extend its creeping stem over a decaying mossy tree-stump. Its fronds, depending from the trunks and exposed roots of old trees, on deep shady banks, under which circumstances it is often seen naturally, are decidedly ornamental. Light porous soil, or a thoroughly-drained medium for its roots, are essential; and it does not appear to thrive in a London atmosphere. It is readily increased by dividing the branched rhizome. (2.) Polypodlum Phegopteris, Linnceus. -- Mountain Polypody, or Beech Fern. -- Fronds ovate-triangu- gular, acuminate, pinnate below, pinnse lanceolate, the lower pair distinct sessile, usually deflexed, pinnatifid; lobules linear oblong, blunt; upper pinnae united. Polypodium Phegopteris, T. inuauis. Bolt. Fil. 36. t. 20 Schkuhr, Crypt, t. 20. Eng. Bot. t. 2224 (and t. 1018 as Thelyp- teris). Sin. Eng. Fl. iv. 269. Hook, and Am. Brit. FI. 668. Bab. Man. 408. Deak. Florig. Brit. if. 41. Moore, Nat. Print Ferns, t. 4. Sowerb. Ferns, 11, t. 2. -- P. Connectile, Michaux. -- P. Latebrosum, Salisbury. -- Polystichum Phegopteris, Koth. -- Lastbea Phegopteris Bory. Newm. Nat. Aim. 1844, 17 ; Brit F. ed. 2, 13. -- Gtmnocahpium Phegopteris, Newm. App. xxiii.; Id. Hist. 49. -- Phegoptebis Polypodioides, Fe'e.--Pheoopteris Vclgabis, Metteniua Rhizome perennial, extensively creeping, slender, dark- coloured, slightly scaly, producing black fibrous roots. Vernation circulate. Stipes as long as...« less