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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... bears a change of condition better than many plants which are considered more hardy . It succeeds best in a turfy peat soil without any admixture , and bears drought better than would be imagined from its love of damp shady situations ...
... bears a change of condition better than many plants which are considered more hardy . It succeeds best in a turfy peat soil without any admixture , and bears drought better than would be imagined from its love of damp shady situations ...
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... bear ; and that in fact they have bones , flesh , and blood ; and hence they are called zoophytes , i . e . plant - animals . Many other things I was likewise told , which might , however , appear scarcely probable to such as have not ...
... bear ; and that in fact they have bones , flesh , and blood ; and hence they are called zoophytes , i . e . plant - animals . Many other things I was likewise told , which might , however , appear scarcely probable to such as have not ...
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... bear exposure , if well supplied with water ; but to obtain it in its beauty it must be screened from the direct heat of the sun . When potted , it requires nothing but peat , and should be kept constantly standing in water . It is ...
... bear exposure , if well supplied with water ; but to obtain it in its beauty it must be screened from the direct heat of the sun . When potted , it requires nothing but peat , and should be kept constantly standing in water . It is ...
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... , though the specimens sent from America differ in many respects from the true Lady Fern . No collection , either in the open air or in a case , is complete without the beautiful Lady Fern . It bears civilization LADY FERN . 31.
... , though the specimens sent from America differ in many respects from the true Lady Fern . No collection , either in the open air or in a case , is complete without the beautiful Lady Fern . It bears civilization LADY FERN . 31.
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... bears civilization admirably . In rock - work it should occupy a low , boggy situation , as it loves shade and moisture , planted among turfy soil , kept well mois- tened and drained . Placed at the edge of a cavern or pool of water ...
... bears civilization admirably . In rock - work it should occupy a low , boggy situation , as it loves shade and moisture , planted among turfy soil , kept well mois- tened and drained . Placed at the edge of a cavern or pool of water ...
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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,