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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... surface , and growing luxuriantly in the clefts and ledges of the slate and trap masses which there abound . In Scotland it is abundant ; and it is to be found in Ireland , though more sparingly . In cultivation , this charming little ...
... surface , and growing luxuriantly in the clefts and ledges of the slate and trap masses which there abound . In Scotland it is abundant ; and it is to be found in Ireland , though more sparingly . In cultivation , this charming little ...
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... surface lie numerous small , round , shining , bright - yellow glands , which give the young fronds a golden tinge , and when rubbed or bruised emit a pleasant resinous odour . The fronds make their appearance about the beginning of May ...
... surface lie numerous small , round , shining , bright - yellow glands , which give the young fronds a golden tinge , and when rubbed or bruised emit a pleasant resinous odour . The fronds make their appearance about the beginning of May ...
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... is valuable in group- ing , as forming a contrast with the more ornamental species . The rhizome should not be buried , but the crown left above the surface . BROAD SHIELD FERN . ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM . [ Smith , RIGID SHIELD FERN . 23.
... is valuable in group- ing , as forming a contrast with the more ornamental species . The rhizome should not be buried , but the crown left above the surface . BROAD SHIELD FERN . ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM . [ Smith , RIGID SHIELD FERN . 23.
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... surface , like that of holly . MARSH FERN . ASPIDIUM THELYPTERIS . [ Swartz , Smith , Hooker , Bentham . ] ( Fig . 2. ) SYNONYMS . LASTREA THELYPTERIS . - Babington , Presl , Moore . HEMESTHEUM THELYPTERIS . - Newman . THIS fern has ...
... surface , like that of holly . MARSH FERN . ASPIDIUM THELYPTERIS . [ Swartz , Smith , Hooker , Bentham . ] ( Fig . 2. ) SYNONYMS . LASTREA THELYPTERIS . - Babington , Presl , Moore . HEMESTHEUM THELYPTERIS . - Newman . THIS fern has ...
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... surface of the pinnule . It is one of the latest of our ferns in un- folding its fronds , which are not often open until the middle of June . It is a conspicuous ornament of the situations where it occurs ; chiefly on old walls , or ...
... surface of the pinnule . It is one of the latest of our ferns in un- folding its fronds , which are not often open until the middle of June . It is a conspicuous ornament of the situations where it occurs ; chiefly on old walls , or ...
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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,