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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... district in England - Devonshire or the Isle of Wight , -where the lanes and coppices are luxuriant with the bright green fronds of familiar ferns . With a trowel , or some other instrument , we dig round the roots , and deeply down ...
... district in England - Devonshire or the Isle of Wight , -where the lanes and coppices are luxuriant with the bright green fronds of familiar ferns . With a trowel , or some other instrument , we dig round the roots , and deeply down ...
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... district , that it is frequently used as a package for goods . The French chemists use this species extensively in the manufacture of capillaire , a sweet syrup , which is sold very largely both in Paris and London . The True Maiden ...
... district , that it is frequently used as a package for goods . The French chemists use this species extensively in the manufacture of capillaire , a sweet syrup , which is sold very largely both in Paris and London . The True Maiden ...
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... districts , and is seldom found on open heaths or downs . The young fronds make their appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in July , while in August they are loaded with dark masses of fructification . They retain their ...
... districts , and is seldom found on open heaths or downs . The young fronds make their appearance in April , and attain their full expansion in July , while in August they are loaded with dark masses of fructification . They retain their ...
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... districts , and may be found in almost every country ramble in England . It is most abundant in cultivated districts , and in rich soils it lives to a great age ; the fronds of each suc- ceeding year appearing to increase in size . The ...
... districts , and may be found in almost every country ramble in England . It is most abundant in cultivated districts , and in rich soils it lives to a great age ; the fronds of each suc- ceeding year appearing to increase in size . The ...
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... districts . It grows on Hampstead Heath , Wimbledon Common , and Black- heath ; also at Tunbridge Wells , and is abundant in Scotland . A special characteristic of this fern is men- tioned by Mr. Newman , which is worthy of observa ...
... districts . It grows on Hampstead Heath , Wimbledon Common , and Black- heath ; also at Tunbridge Wells , and is abundant in Scotland . A special characteristic of this fern is men- tioned by Mr. Newman , which is worthy of observa ...
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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,