Identifier: fernsbritishexot02lowe (find matches)
Title: Ferns: British and exotic..
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lowe, E. J. (Edward Joseph), 1825-1900
Subjects: Ferns
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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use species. Galliotti found it on the Volcano Orizaba, at an elevation offrom nine to ten thousand feet, growing in oak and fir woods.Leibmann found it in the woods over Chinantha, between sevenand eight hundred feet high, principally growing upon the oaktrees. A very characteristic fact which authors do not speak of, andwhich is especially of importance in relation to this species, isthe rhizoma. Pinnate, with three to five pairs of inch-wide divisions, witha terminal one. The divisions profoundly dentate. 110 POLYPODIUM AFFINE. Habit almost erect; fronds short and broad, and somewhatcrumpled. Rhizoma horizontal and creeping, about as thick as a finger,covered with membranaceous undulated reddish pellucid scales. Length of frond twelve to eighteen inches; width from fourto six inches; colour heavy dull green. My thanks are due to Mr. E,. Sim, for a frond of this species. It is only in the Catalogue of Mr. E,. Sim, of Foots Cray. The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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