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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... , with the stalks of the pin- nules set on at acute angles , and the pinnules more deeply divided . It is not so common as the other forms . 6 Aspidium Rigidum h السا 7 Aspidium Cristalum 5 Aspidium 2 TRUE MAIDEN HAIR .
... , with the stalks of the pin- nules set on at acute angles , and the pinnules more deeply divided . It is not so common as the other forms . 6 Aspidium Rigidum h السا 7 Aspidium Cristalum 5 Aspidium 2 TRUE MAIDEN HAIR .
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... divided than Aspidium aculeatum . The fronds lax , drooping , and lanceolate , with more distinct segments ; the lower pinnæ evi- dently stalked . The whole plant has a very vigorous appearance , and retains its green colour even in ...
... divided than Aspidium aculeatum . The fronds lax , drooping , and lanceolate , with more distinct segments ; the lower pinnæ evi- dently stalked . The whole plant has a very vigorous appearance , and retains its green colour even in ...
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... divided into a fringe or tassel , a curious transformation , which occurs in British species only in this and the Lady Fern . ASPIDIUM FILIX MAS PUMILA is permanently smaller than the original plant , seldom reaching more than a foot in ...
... divided into a fringe or tassel , a curious transformation , which occurs in British species only in this and the Lady Fern . ASPIDIUM FILIX MAS PUMILA is permanently smaller than the original plant , seldom reaching more than a foot in ...
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... divided towards the point of the frond . The sori arẹ at first distinct , placed near the mid - rib ; but as the plant becomes older , they are generally confluent in a mass , often covering the whole under - surface of the pinnule . It ...
... divided towards the point of the frond . The sori arẹ at first distinct , placed near the mid - rib ; but as the plant becomes older , they are generally confluent in a mass , often covering the whole under - surface of the pinnule . It ...
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... divided ; the stalk is less scaly , and the sori different . The fronds , which appear in May , are lanceolate , twice pinnate ; the pinnules deeply cut or pinnatifid ; the lobes sharply toothed . At first the vernation of the fronds is ...
... divided ; the stalk is less scaly , and the sori different . The fronds , which appear in May , are lanceolate , twice pinnate ; the pinnules deeply cut or pinnatifid ; the lobes sharply toothed . At first the vernation of the fronds is ...
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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,