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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Page xvii
... extend in straight lines to the margins , where , in the barren fronds , they end in the marginal notches , but in the fertile fronds extend into the indusium , and B form receptacles for the spore - cases . The sori CLIFFE UNIVERSITY ...
... extend in straight lines to the margins , where , in the barren fronds , they end in the marginal notches , but in the fertile fronds extend into the indusium , and B form receptacles for the spore - cases . The sori CLIFFE UNIVERSITY ...
Page xviii
... indusium for the development of the clusters of fructi- fication . This beautiful little fern is evidently a wanderer from warmer climates , and is only very locally distri- buted in Great Britain . Cornwall , Devonshire , and the ...
... indusium for the development of the clusters of fructi- fication . This beautiful little fern is evidently a wanderer from warmer climates , and is only very locally distri- buted in Great Britain . Cornwall , Devonshire , and the ...
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... 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 until June , and becomes disfigured by the ...
... 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 until June , and becomes disfigured by the ...
Page 14
... 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 view to understand the fructification of ferns , on account of the prominence of ...
... 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 view to understand the fructification of ferns , on account of the prominence of ...
Page 18
... indusium being inflated beneath the spore - cases . A very curious form of the Male Fern has the points of the fronds and of the pinnæ divided into a fringe or tassel , a curious transformation , which occurs in British species only in ...
... indusium being inflated beneath the spore - cases . A very curious form of the Male Fern has the points of the fronds and of the pinnæ divided into a fringe or tassel , a curious transformation , which occurs in British species only in ...
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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,