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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... pinnate . The fertile fronds are known by their oblong or linear segments . They are nearly triangular , and the indu- sium is covered by the reflexed edge of the frond . The veins are alternate , often forked , and each branch ending ...
... pinnate . The fertile fronds are known by their oblong or linear segments . They are nearly triangular , and the indu- sium is covered by the reflexed edge of the frond . The veins are alternate , often forked , and each branch ending ...
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... pinnate ; the texture harsh and rigid ; the upper sur- face dark green and shining ; and the stalk or stipes , below the leafy part , from one to six inches long , very shaggy , with brown scarious scales . The veins are alternately ...
... pinnate ; the texture harsh and rigid ; the upper sur- face dark green and shining ; and the stalk or stipes , below the leafy part , from one to six inches long , very shaggy , with brown scarious scales . The veins are alternately ...
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... pinnate . The pinnules are more decidedly decurrent . It is also of a more rigid texture ; the pinnæ lobed or pinnatifid . The variety ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM ANGULARE is recognized by Moore and some other authors as a distinct species . It ...
... pinnate . The pinnules are more decidedly decurrent . It is also of a more rigid texture ; the pinnæ lobed or pinnatifid . The variety ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM ANGULARE is recognized by Moore and some other authors as a distinct species . It ...
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... pinnate ; the pinnæ nearly opposite ; the pairs gradually approxi- mate from the base towards the apex ; the first and second pairs are very broad at the base , the third pair longer and narrower , and so on with the rest until they ...
... pinnate ; the pinnæ nearly opposite ; the pairs gradually approxi- mate from the base towards the apex ; the first and second pairs are very broad at the base , the third pair longer and narrower , and so on with the rest until they ...
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... the others . The fronds are bipinnate ; the segments of the pinnæ deeply toothed , pinnatifid , or thrice pinnate . Its chief characteristics are the lower pinnæ not ' decreasing in size , and the 24 BROAD SHIELD FERN .
... the others . The fronds are bipinnate ; the segments of the pinnæ deeply toothed , pinnatifid , or thrice pinnate . Its chief characteristics are the lower pinnæ not ' decreasing in size , and the 24 BROAD SHIELD FERN .
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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,