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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... work on " British Ferns . " To those who really in- tend to make a study of this branch of botany , we would recommend any or all of these volumes . ELEGANT PRESENT FOR THE COUNTRY OR SEASIDE . Handsomely bound INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . XV.
... work on " British Ferns . " To those who really in- tend to make a study of this branch of botany , we would recommend any or all of these volumes . ELEGANT PRESENT FOR THE COUNTRY OR SEASIDE . Handsomely bound INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . XV.
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... branch ending in a cluster , having no indusium , but concealed by the reflexed edge of the leaflet . The stem is slender and very brittle . The duration of this most beautiful little fern is very short ; it does not reach maturity ...
... branch ending in a cluster , having no indusium , but concealed by the reflexed edge of the leaflet . The stem is slender and very brittle . The duration of this most beautiful little fern is very short ; it does not reach maturity ...
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... branch of the rhizome , which is stout and strong . They attain a height of two or more feet under favourable circumstances , and are peculiarly erect , narrowing towards the upper part . Rather more than a third of the stem is bare of ...
... branch of the rhizome , which is stout and strong . They attain a height of two or more feet under favourable circumstances , and are peculiarly erect , narrowing towards the upper part . Rather more than a third of the stem is bare of ...
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... branches , but forms a strong , enduring , erect , stem - like base , that not unfrequently rises from six inches to a foot above the soil . The fronds are pinnate ; the pinnæ nearly opposite ; the pairs gradually approxi- mate from the ...
... branches , but forms a strong , enduring , erect , stem - like base , that not unfrequently rises from six inches to a foot above the soil . The fronds are pinnate ; the pinnæ nearly opposite ; the pairs gradually approxi- mate from the ...
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... branch of the forked lateral veins , and covered by a conspicuous kidney- shaped indusium , which is attached to the vein just at the point where the stalks of the capsules are situated . It is one of the best species to study , with a ...
... branch of the forked lateral veins , and covered by a conspicuous kidney- shaped indusium , which is attached to the vein just at the point where the stalks of the capsules are situated . It is one of the best species to study , with a ...
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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
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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,