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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... base of earth or rock , and each could have the amount of light most suited to its fullest development . " Mr. Ward goes on even to suggest what he himself has so beautifully carried out , -the culture and growth of majestic tropical ...
... base of earth or rock , and each could have the amount of light most suited to its fullest development . " Mr. Ward goes on even to suggest what he himself has so beautifully carried out , -the culture and growth of majestic tropical ...
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... 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 base , with rounded or egg - shaped apex ; and they have generally some variation of a fan ...
... 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 base , with rounded or egg - shaped apex ; and they have generally some variation of a fan ...
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... base or slopes of moun- tains in the north of England , and in Wales . On the rocks of Snowdon it may be seen covering the other- wise bare surface , and growing luxuriantly in the clefts and ledges of the slate and trap masses which ...
... base or slopes of moun- tains in the north of England , and in Wales . On the rocks of Snowdon it may be seen covering the other- wise bare surface , and growing luxuriantly in the clefts and ledges of the slate and trap masses which ...
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... base towards the apex ; the first and second pairs are very broad at the base , the third pair longer and narrower , and so on with the rest until they reach the apex of the frond . According to Babington , this species is distinguished ...
... base towards the apex ; the first and second pairs are very broad at the base , the third pair longer and narrower , and so on with the rest until they reach the apex of the frond . According to Babington , this species is distinguished ...
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... base to a mere leafy excrescence close to the ground . The sori are placed like beads under the edges of the lobes , which do not turn back as in the Marsh Fern ( Aspidium Thelypteris ) . Over every 20 MOUNTAIN SHIELD FERN .
... base to a mere leafy excrescence close to the ground . The sori are placed like beads under the edges of the lobes , which do not turn back as in the Marsh Fern ( Aspidium Thelypteris ) . Over every 20 MOUNTAIN SHIELD FERN .
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192 Piccadilly abundant Algĉ appearance ASPIDIUM FILIX Babington barren fronds beautiful Bentham bipinnate botanists Botany branch Britain British ferns circular cloth common 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 price 68 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 texture tion toothed TRICHOMANES tripinnate tufted twice-pinnate variety veins vernation volume walls Woodcuts WOODSIA 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,