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Excerpt from Garden Ferns, or Coloured Figures and Descriptions, With the Needful Analyses of the Fructification and Venation, of a Selection of Exotic Ferns Adapted for Cultivation in the Garden, Hothouse, and Conservatory January 1813 1861.racters above given: we possess specimens scarcely five inches long, including the root, and all intermediate grades to eighteen or twenty inches. The caudex is generally small and indistinct, perpendicular, clothed with numerous thick wiry roots. The largest of our sterile fronds is two and a quarter inches broad, divided almost to the base into spreading segments finely ser rated at the margins; often the midrib is prolonged for some inches into a tail-like point, proliferous at the extremity. The fertile fronds are always much longer than the sterile one, nar rower, linear and entire, the whole margin formed of the closely compacted and coadunate involucres, from which the columella or receptacle (its base clothed with capsules) is much exserted. It is the general prolongation or exsertion of these bristle-shaped receptacles that has suggested the English specific name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.