This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...HIS is a small but handsome genus of ferns, with large handsome bipinnatifid fronds, natives of the North Temperate zone, extending, though but slightly, into the Tropics. The genus was established by Sir James Edward Smith in 1794, and named by him in commemoration of Mr. Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, a British botanist ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...HIS is a small but handsome genus of ferns, with large handsome bipinnatifid fronds, natives of the North Temperate zone, extending, though but slightly, into the Tropics. The genus was established by Sir James Edward Smith in 1794, and named by him in commemoration of Mr. Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, a British botanist who published some papers on seaweeds and fungi towards the end of the last century. Six species are recognised by Hooker and Baker. The rhizome or underground stem is very thick, covered with scales, and rooting very freely. The stipites are covered at the base with long narrow scales. The fronds are uniform in some of the species, and dimorphous in others; they are once or twice pinnate, with undivided or divided pinnae, and in many cases are proliferous, giving off small scaly buds from the upper side of the fronds, which produce fresh plants. We shall say more about this peculiarity in our description of W. radicans. The sori are oblong or linear, "arranged in one or more chain-like rows or transverse anastomosing veinlets parallel and near to the midrib." This disposition of the sori has suggested the name "Chain Fern," by which the genus is sometimes called in books. These veinlets form a series of elongated meshes, technically termed areoles. Of the six species, four have uniform fronds, while in two they are dimorphous. Of the dimorphous-fronded species, one, W. Harlandi, is a native of Hong Kong, while the other, W. angustifolia (called also W. areolata), is a United States plant, extending from Massachusetts to Florida, and most abundant in the Southern States. Of this latter the sterile fronds are membranous, from a foot to a foot and a half in height, with slender stipites and numerous pinnae; the fertile fronds...
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