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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... WALL or MAIDEN - HAIR ( Asple- 3 = 35 35 11 28 nium Trichomanes ) .. SPLEENWORT , FORKED ( Asplenium septentrionale ) 32 43 .... 19 42 SPLEENWORT , LANCEOLATE ( Asplenium lanceolatum ) .. 9 36 SPLEENWORT , SCALY ( Ceterach officinarum ) ...
... WALL or MAIDEN - HAIR ( Asple- 3 = 35 35 11 28 nium Trichomanes ) .. SPLEENWORT , FORKED ( Asplenium septentrionale ) 32 43 .... 19 42 SPLEENWORT , LANCEOLATE ( Asplenium lanceolatum ) .. 9 36 SPLEENWORT , SCALY ( Ceterach officinarum ) ...
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... wall the better , and one looking north or west . Make up your raised bed with a light soil , largely intermixed with frequent rough porous stones . Front it with rock - work , wherein to fix , especially , the smaller and wall kinds ...
... wall the better , and one looking north or west . Make up your raised bed with a light soil , largely intermixed with frequent rough porous stones . Front it with rock - work , wherein to fix , especially , the smaller and wall kinds ...
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... walls , or hanging in graceful sprays over rocks , or on the hedgebank of the dry but shady lane . The fronds grow erect or stooping , according to the position of the plant ; they have generally a triangular outline . They are not ...
... walls , or hanging in graceful sprays over rocks , or on the hedgebank of the dry but shady lane . The fronds grow erect or stooping , according to the position of the plant ; they have generally a triangular outline . They are not ...
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... walls and rocks . It was described by Hudson as growing near Wybourn , in Westmoreland . It formerly grew on the walls of D Amersham Church , in Buckinghamshire . It has been found SMOOTH ROCK SPLEEN WORT . SMOOTH ROCK SPLEENWORT. ...
... walls and rocks . It was described by Hudson as growing near Wybourn , in Westmoreland . It formerly grew on the walls of D Amersham Church , in Buckinghamshire . It has been found SMOOTH ROCK SPLEEN WORT . SMOOTH ROCK SPLEENWORT. ...
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... wall at Tooting . Specimens exist in the collection of the Botanical Society of London , said to have been gathered in Wharncliffe Wood , in Yorkshire . Through- out the continent of Europe , chiefly near the sea , in Madeira , and ...
... wall at Tooting . Specimens exist in the collection of the Botanical Society of London , said to have been gathered in Wharncliffe Wood , in Yorkshire . Through- out the continent of Europe , chiefly near the sea , in Madeira , and ...
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abundant Algĉ 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 Linnĉus 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 pinnĉ 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,