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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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late; pinnse approximate, sessile, alternateor sub-opposite, elongate; apex acuminate, unequal in size;about twenty-five pairs and an ultimate one. Veins anastomosing, with a free excurrent venule in eachareole, club-headed, and on which at its apex the sporangiais situated. Sori uniserial, medial, about twenty pairs on each pinna. Length twenty-four inches, of which the lower four to sixinches is naked; colour a dull green. 130 POLYPODIUM COLPODES. In concluding the natural history of the Polypodium family,there will be a number of species found figured which arenew to our British cultivators; they are, however, so beautiful,and in most instances so distinct, that it has been desirableto figure them at once, instead of reserving them for thesupplementary volume. For fronds of P. colpodes I am indebted to Mr. J. Smith,Curator of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and to Messrs. Booth,of Hamburg. This species may be procured of Messrs. Booth, of Hamburg. The illustration is from Mr. Smiths frond.
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P O L Y P C- D1 U M 1. O iS ti i r U ^ 1 L M.LXl-VOL. 2.

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