Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    covered by distinct reflexed portions of the margin of the frond. tt Capsule opening irregularh/, seated on a receptacle lohich ends a vein at the edge of the frond. Ring oblique, transverse, complete. Tr. V. HYMENOPIIYLLEAl. 15. Trichomanes. Capsides on a long filiform receptacle ■within a cupshaped involucre of the same texture with the fi'ond. 16. Hymenophyllum. Capsules on a narrow subclavate receptacle within a two-valved involucre of the same texture with the frond. ** Capsules zoithout an elastic ring. Suborder II. OSMUNDAOEyE. Young fronds circinate. Kachis woody. Capsules regularly 2-valved, stalked, in clusters at the extremity of the frond. Tr. VI. OSMUND EM. 17. OsMUNDA. Capsules clustered, arranged in a branched spike terminating the frond. Suborder III. OPPTIOGLOSSACE/E. Young fronds straight. Rachis succulent. Capsules regularly 2-valved, sessile, in clusters on a separate branch of the frond. Tr. VII. OPIIIOGLOSSEM. 18. BoxnYCniuM. Capsides distinct, disposed in a compound spike attached to a pinnate or bipinnate frond. 19. Oi'HiOGLOSSUM. Capsules connate, disposed in a simple distichous spike attached to an undivided frond. Suborder I. Polyjjodiacece. Tribe I. Folypodiece. 1. CRYPToaRAM'ME R. Br. llock-brako. 1. C. cris'pn (Tl. fir.); barren fronds 2—.3-pinnate, leaflets wedgesliapcd or lincar-obloug often bilid at llie end, leallets of the iLTlile fronds oblong.—//. F. Allosorus ]5(!rnh., N. 103. E. B. 1100.—Fertile frond nearly triangular. Veins alternate,
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