A Plain and Easy Account of the British Ferns: Together with Their Classification, Arrangement of Genera, Structure, and Functions and a Glosssary of Technical and Other Terms |
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... TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS . EDITED BY MRS . LANKESTER . WITH ILLUSTRATIONS MUSED CXFC LONDON : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , PICCADILLY ; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS . BOD JAN D 1152 LIBRARY ADVERTISEMENT . THE first edition Charge 3. Diem.
... TECHNICAL AND OTHER TERMS . EDITED BY MRS . LANKESTER . WITH ILLUSTRATIONS MUSED CXFC LONDON : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , PICCADILLY ; AND ALL BOOKSELLERS . BOD JAN D 1152 LIBRARY ADVERTISEMENT . THE first edition Charge 3. Diem.
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... the radix if you can . In putting them to dry in the blotting - paper , have respect to the natural position of the fern , and also to London : Robert Hardwicke , 192 , Piccadilly . the size of the sheet of paper on which they DRYING .
... the radix if you can . In putting them to dry in the blotting - paper , have respect to the natural position of the fern , and also to London : Robert Hardwicke , 192 , Piccadilly . the size of the sheet of paper on which they DRYING .
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... affix the dried specimen ; forming when filled an elegant and complete collection of this interesting family of plants . London : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , Piccadilly , W. M FERNS . TRUE MAIDEN HAIR . ADIANTUM CAPILLUS VENERIS.
... affix the dried specimen ; forming when filled an elegant and complete collection of this interesting family of plants . London : ROBERT HARDWICKE , 192 , Piccadilly , W. M FERNS . TRUE MAIDEN HAIR . ADIANTUM CAPILLUS VENERIS.
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... London . The True Maiden Hair is employed chiefly in England for this purpose , and is a safer plant than the Canadian one , which acts as an emetic when taken in any quan- tity . Dr. Ball , of Dublin , says that the inhabitants of ...
... London . The True Maiden Hair is employed chiefly in England for this purpose , and is a safer plant than the Canadian one , which acts as an emetic when taken in any quan- tity . Dr. Ball , of Dublin , says that the inhabitants of ...
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... London , in Cheshire , Norfolk , and Nottingham- shire . This fern is by no means difficult to cultivate . It will bear exposure , if well supplied with water ; but to obtain it in its beauty it must be screened from the direct heat of ...
... London , in Cheshire , Norfolk , and Nottingham- shire . This fern is by no means difficult to cultivate . It will bear exposure , if well supplied with water ; but to obtain it in its beauty it must be screened from the direct heat of ...
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abundant Algĉ appearance ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM ASPIDIUM FILIX ASPLENIUM FILIX Babington barren fronds beautiful Bentham bipinnate botanists Botany branch Britain British ferns circular cloth common contains covered Crown 8vo cultivation delicate distinct dorsal Easy Account Edition England Fcap flowers fronds fructification Fully Illustrated Fungi growing Hardwicke's Hooker and Arnott Indusia indusium Ireland J. E. SOWERBY Lady Fern lanceolate Lankester LASTREA leaf leafy linear Linnĉus little fern lobes London M. C. COOKE Maiden Hair Male Fern Manual margin Microscopic mid-rib moisture Moore native Newman oblong OPHIOGLOSSUM VULGATUM OSMUNDA ovate P. L. SIMMONDS pinnĉ pinnate pinnatifid pinnules Plain and Easy plant Plate POLYPODIUM POLYPODIUM VULGARE Polypody Professor rhizome rock-work rocks roots Science SCOLOPENDRIUM Scotland segments SHIELD FERN six inches Smith soil sori species of fern specimens SPLEENWORT spore-cases stalk stem SYNONYMS TERNATE texture tion toothed TRICHOMANES tripinnate tufted twice-pinnate variety veins volume walls Woodcuts WOODSIA ILVENSIS
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Page 71 - And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
Page 77 - When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon ; When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able ; When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.
Page 109 - SOWERBY'S ENGLISH BOTANY: Containing a Description and Life-size coloured Drawing of every British Plant. Edited and brought up to the Present Standard of Scientific Knowledge by T. BOSWELL (formerly SYME), LL.DFLS, &c. With Popular Descriptions of the Uses, History, and Traditions of each Plant, by Mrs. LANKESTEB, Author of " Wild Flowers Worth Notice," " The British Ferns,