In a suitable rocky corner there is no reason why the Lanceolate Spleenwort should not be grown in a garden.
As in the Hard Prickly Shield Fern, we find a tufted root-stock from which grow lanceolate fronds.
The outline of the frond is somewhat variable; on occasion, examples may be found with a lanceolate outline, whilst others may be distinctly triangular in shape.
The leaves are freely produced in tufts and are roughly lanceolate in outline.
The Lanceolate Spleenwort is usually met with near to the sea or in mountainous districts.
From a tufted root-stock which is clad with pale brown scales the fronds arise; these are about six or eight inches in length and are lanceolate in outline.
The design of the frond, when it is developed, shows by itslanceolate outline a marked feature which distinguishes it from the triangular outline to be seen in the case of the Black Maidenhair Fern.
The fronds, which are lanceolate in outline and about four inches to a foot in length, arise from a tufted root-stock; the stipes is usually about a third of the frond.
Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate orlanceolate evergreen leaves.
Leaflets 7 to 11, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, serrate with deep teeth.
Leaflets 7 to 9, lanceolate or elliptical, attenuated, serrated, entire at the stalked bases, villous or downy beneath.
The term which most nearly suits the general form is placed at the end; thus lance-ovate indicates a leaf between lanceolate and ovate, but nearer ovate than lanceolate; while ovate-lanceolate indicates one nearer lanceolate.
Illustration] A lanceolate leaf should naturally have a tapering base, but might have an abrupt one.
The only species which grows at all tree-like has ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, smooth, petioled leaves, tapering at both ends and green on both sides.
The upper part of the stem bears sessile lanceolate leaves, decreasing in size from the base to the summit.
It is therefore safe to conclude that the cordate leaves are inherited forms, and that the lanceolate organs are adaptations to light which may be shown by any individual of the species.
The frieze alone is low, and the metopes consequently small, being framed by massive triglyphs, the chamferings of which have circular or lanceolate endings.
Behind the acanthos-leaves rises a simple row of lanceolate reeds, which follows the outline of the calyx.
Another form of sanctuary, with gabled roof and lanceolate acroteria, is represented upon a relief of Corsabad.
Its plumage is blackish with lengthened lanceolate feathers about the neck, and with the greater wing coverts broadly tipped with grayish white (in very old birds).
A handsome grayish colored species, with long lanceolate plumes on the back, and two or three fine white plumes from the back of the head, like those of the Black-crowned species.
Defn: Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
Defn: An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolateleaf with a dark spot in the middle.
Defn: Lanceolate in the reversed order, that is, narrowing toward the point of attachment more than toward the apex.
The leaves are commonly narrowly lanceolate but are very variable; they slightly clasp the stem with their bases.
Five lanceolate and stemless leaves are in a whorl about the stem just below the flower.
The flowers, several of which grow on each stem, are wheel-shaped, have five rounded white petals, and narrow lanceolate greenish sepals.
The upper ones are lanceolate and seated on the stem, the lower ones are broader toward the tip, rather spatulate shaped.
The ovate-lanceolate leaves are stemless and seated oppositely on the stem.
The calyx is densely hairy, as are also the lanceolate leaves that grow oppositely on the stem.
The pointed, lanceolate leaves are whorled about the stem usually in groups of fours, occasionally more or less.
Two elliptical-lanceolate leaves clasp the scape at its base, near the scaly bulb; they are pale green, mottled with purple and white.
The ovate-lanceolate leaves are seated on the stem and not pierced by it.
The alternating leaves are lanceolate and finely toothed.
The leaves are lanceolateand taper to a point at each end.
Leaves lanceolate and gradually diminishing in size as they alternate to the top of the stem.
One or two oblong-lanceolate leaves with obtuse tips clasp the stem near the base while several small bracts alternate along it.
The weak stem is usually very crooked and is often prostrate on the ground; two linear-lanceolate leaves clasp it oppositely about halfway up.
The lanceolate pointed leaves, that alternate along the angled and sheathed stem, are rather rough and usually have a dark triangular spot in the middle.
Hookeri is a free-flowering perennial, with pointed lanceolate leaves, of a delicate texture, bright green, and very finely toothed.
Mountain Inula), a fine dwarf plant with woolly lanceolate leaves and dense heads of orange-colored flowers, resembling in habit and general appearance some of the creeping Hieraciums.
Britain, is known by its arrow-shaped leaves with lanceolate straight lobes.
It was a small herbaceous plant, with erect simple stem, oblonglanceolate leaves, and a terminal spike of not very conspicuous white flowers.
Calyx with 2 bracts at the base, top-shaped, monophyllous, 5 lanceolate teeth.
Calyx proper, very short, monophyllous, a lanceolate leaflet springing from the border.
Calyx free, 5 lanceolate sepals, of which 2 are slightly longer than the others.
Corolla funnel-form, tube long and triangular; limb cut in 6 horizontal lanceolate lobes.
Corolla, 4 lanceolatepetals inserted between the divisions of the calyx.
Flowers terminal, white-green, in racemes of 3 sessile flowers with lanceolate bracts.
In both skulls the anterior prolongation of the ethmoid is lanceolate and flat, but in the Rugsund skull the apex is truncated.
The pterygoids are cut off from the maxillae anteriorly by a very narrow band of the palatine, which connects with a broad band externally and a lanceolate segment internally.
Annuals with some of the glumes at least, lanceolateor broad below.
Palea canary yellow to light-brown, lanceolate with rounded back and the mid-rib prominent as a slight keel and margins infolded, about 4 mm.
The leaves of the peach are more broadly lanceolate than those of the almond, coarsely serrate or crenate while the margins of almond-leaves are finely serrate.
Achene surrounded by two persistent shining pieces, the floret; floral glume hard, light brown, oval or ovate-lanceolate 2.
Cuphea Melvilla, is the only species of the genus that is particularly deserving of a situation, has lanceolate scabrous leaves, narrowed at each end, flowers tubular in a terminale whorl, colour scarlet and green.
Thrinax parviflora, is a fine dwarf palm of the West Indies, with palmated fronds, plaited with stiff, lanceolate segments.
The foliage is lanceolate and amplexicaule, the leaves having much the nature and appearance of Iris.
The foliage is greatly admired, and is in large fronds, with oblique, lanceolate leaflets.
Its leaves, which are either lanceolate or oblong and pointed, are glabrous above and rough beneath.
This is a robust species about a yard high, with large lanceolate leaves, and small, rosy-red flowers arranged in corymbose heads.
This is a very distinct species, with lanceolate serrated leaves, and pinkish or nearly white flowers.
It is a neat little compact shrub, with oblong-lanceolate leaves that are rusty-scaly on the under sides, and has terminal clusters of rosy-red flowers.
This is a much branched twiggy shrub, about 4 feet high, with small, linear-lanceolate leaves, thickly studded with pellucid dots.
A small-growing and slender species, with oblong-lanceolate leaves 2 inches long, and producing small yellow flowers in terminal heads.
This is a handsome hardy shrub of small stature, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, and clusters of showy pink, or sometimes white flowers, that are produced in April and May.
It is a native shrub, growing from 3 feet to 4 feet high, with deciduous, linear-lanceolate leaves, and clustered catkins appearing before the leaves.
The ovate-lanceolate leaves are of a light greyish-green, and the small white flowers are produced in dense racemes or spikes.
The ovate-lanceolate leaves are rough to the touch, and its slender, but wiry stems, are wreathed for a considerable distance along with racemes of pure white flowers.
It grows about 18 inches high, with lanceolate dull-green leaves, and pretty pinky-white flowers, individually large and produced abundantly.
It bears numerous leaves of a pale green color sessile, ovate lanceolate and pointed in form, which come out alternately from two to three inches apart.
Leaves of a lanceolate form are the largest, and the shape of those found on most varieties of the American plant.
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