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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Page xi
... appearance of blight may be treated with lime - water . The case itself should not be placed in too retired a part of the room ( except as regards that containing Trichomanes brevisetum , or Hymenophyllum ) , as the natural tendency of ...
... appearance of blight may be treated with lime - water . The case itself should not be placed in too retired a part of the room ( except as regards that containing Trichomanes brevisetum , or Hymenophyllum ) , as the natural tendency of ...
Page xvii
... appearance . Its slender creeping rhizome is shaggy , with black hair - like scales , and the base of the stipes is of a rich red - brown colour . The pinnules are very irregular in shape , but mostly wedge - shaped , or tapering at the ...
... appearance . Its slender creeping rhizome is shaggy , with black hair - like scales , and the base of the stipes is of a rich red - brown colour . The pinnules are very irregular in shape , but mostly wedge - shaped , or tapering at the ...
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... appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in July , while in August they are loaded with dark masses of fructification . They retain their green colour throughout the year , and the old fronds of one year may be seen ...
... appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in July , while in August they are loaded with dark masses of fructification . They retain their green colour throughout the year , and the old fronds of one year may be seen ...
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... 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 or three feet in height they spring in a circular ...
... 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 or three feet in height they spring in a circular ...
Page 16
... appearance of a lamb , with feet , head , and tail dis- tinctly formed its skin is covered with a white down as soft as silk . The Tartars and Muscovites esteem it highly , and preserve it in their houses with great care . The sailor ...
... appearance of a lamb , with feet , head , and tail dis- tinctly formed its skin is covered with a white down as soft as silk . The Tartars and Muscovites esteem it highly , and preserve it in their houses with great care . The sailor ...
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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,