British Ferns: Their Classification, Structure, and Functions; Together with the Best Methods for Their Cultivation |
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abundant appearance Aspidium Babington barren fronds beautiful Bentham bipinnate BLADDER FERN botanical botanists branches British ferns BUCKLER FERN capsules caudex Ceterach circular cloth extra cloth gilt CLUB MOSS Coloured Figures Coloured Plates common covered Crown 8vo cultivation CYSTOPTERIS DAVID BOGUE delicate Demy 8vo districts dorsal England EQUISETUM Fcap FILMY FERN FLOWERS fronds fructification green colour grows HEALTH PRIMERS HORSETAIL Indusia indusium Ireland Lady Fern lanceolate Lastrea leaf leafy linear Linnĉus little fern lobes London LYCOPODIUM Maiden Hair Male Fern margin Martin's Place membrane mid-rib moisture Moonwort Moore native Natural History Nephrodium Filix Newman numerous Woodcuts oblong Osmunda ovate peat pinnĉ pinnate pinnatifid pinnules plant Plate XI Polypodium POLYPODY rhizome rock-work rocks roots Scolopendrium Scotland Second Edition segments six inches Smith soil sori specimens SPLEENWORT SPLEENWORT Asplenium spore-cases stalk stem surface Swartz SYNONYMS texture tion toothed Trichomanes tufted twice-pinnate variety veins vernation Vols walls Woodcuts WOODSIA
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