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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... abundance at Ilfracombe , and in many places on the south coast of Devonshire . Mr. Henry Newman , in a letter , describes his dis- covery of this shade - loving beauty , in its retreat in Wales , growing out of a rock encrusted with a ...
... abundance at Ilfracombe , and in many places on the south coast of Devonshire . Mr. Henry Newman , in a letter , describes his dis- covery of this shade - loving beauty , in its retreat in Wales , growing out of a rock encrusted with a ...
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... abundant ; and it is to be found in Ireland , though more sparingly . In cultivation , this charming little fern succeeds well . Nothing can be better adapted by natural habit to the rock - work and masses of dark granite or basaltic ...
... abundant ; and it is to be found in Ireland , though more sparingly . In cultivation , this charming little fern succeeds well . Nothing can be better adapted by natural habit to the rock - work and masses of dark granite or basaltic ...
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... abundant , beyond the regularity of arrangement in the sori , which lie in lines on each side of the mid - rib of the upper leaflets . The root is large and woody . The European range of this fern extends to every country SOFT PRICKLY ...
... abundant , beyond the regularity of arrangement in the sori , which lie in lines on each side of the mid - rib of the upper leaflets . The root is large and woody . The European range of this fern extends to every country SOFT PRICKLY ...
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... abundant on hedgerows , and in shady places in England . It seems to delight in cultivated districts , and is seldom found on open heaths or downs . The young fronds make their appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in ...
... abundant on hedgerows , and in shady places in England . It seems to delight in cultivated districts , and is seldom found on open heaths or downs . The young fronds make their appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in ...
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... abundant fern , deriving its name from its robust appearance in contrast with the more delicate though similar Lady Fern , Aspidium Filix Fœmina . The stipites or stalks are densely scaly . The fronds grow in circular clumps about two ...
... abundant fern , deriving its name from its robust appearance in contrast with the more delicate though similar Lady Fern , Aspidium Filix Fœmina . The stipites or stalks are densely scaly . The fronds grow in circular clumps about two ...
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abundant Algæ 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 Linnæus 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 pinnæ 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
Popular passages
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,