The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Adenocarpus (This genus embraces eight)

Adiantum
Adiantum

This genus embraces eight species, natives of Mediterranean and South-western Europe, North and tropical Africa, and the Canary Islands. To those described on p. 23, Vol. I., the following should now be added: A. decorticans (barkless).* fl. bright yellow, Pea-like, in short, compact racemes. l. densely set, two or three-foliolate; leaflets linear, soft, dark green. Spain, 1883. A beautiful, half-hardy, evergreen shrub, having the general aspect of Furze. (G. C. n. s., xxv., p. 725; R. H. 1883, p. 156.)

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