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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... scales , and the base of the stipes is of a rich red - brown colour . The pinnules are very irregular in shape , but mostly wedge - shaped , or tapering at the base , with rounded or egg - shaped apex ; and they have generally some ...
... scales , and the base of the stipes is of a rich red - brown colour . The pinnules are very irregular in shape , but mostly wedge - shaped , or tapering at the base , with rounded or egg - shaped apex ; and they have generally some ...
Page 7
... scales . The veins are alternately branched , and do not join together , but extend free to the margin . There is nothing remark- able in the fructification , which is generally abundant , beyond the regularity of arrangement in the ...
... scales . The veins are alternately branched , and do not join together , but extend free to the margin . There is nothing remark- able in the fructification , which is generally abundant , beyond the regularity of arrangement in the ...
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... segments ; the lower pinnæ evi- dently stalked . The whole plant has a very vigorous appearance , and retains its green colour even in winter . The stalk is covered with a mass of scales of a rust 8 SOFT PRICKLY SHIELD FERN .
... segments ; the lower pinnæ evi- dently stalked . The whole plant has a very vigorous appearance , and retains its green colour even in winter . The stalk is covered with a mass of scales of a rust 8 SOFT PRICKLY SHIELD FERN .
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... scales of a rust - red colour , which are distinctly observable even in the young plant . Mr. Newman mentions a property as belong- ing to this fern , which , though common to many exotic species , is not found in any other British fern ...
... scales of a rust - red colour , which are distinctly observable even in the young plant . Mr. Newman mentions a property as belong- ing to this fern , which , though common to many exotic species , is not found in any other British fern ...
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... scales . The sori are in two single rows , between the margin and the centre of the frond , and generally on the upper pinnules . The fronds appear in May , and the fructification is matured about August or Septem- ber , soon after ...
... scales . The sori are in two single rows , between the margin and the centre of the frond , and generally on the upper pinnules . The fronds appear in May , and the fructification is matured about August or Septem- ber , soon after ...
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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,