The ferns of Great Britain and their allies, the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

  • Anne Pratt
Date:
[1871]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ferns of Great Britain and their allies, the club-mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v\ FJ.B|V,S i.'F (iUEAT ■i •* i» %mfy, ai:d th- ' fibroiu i>>,- afjil toujrli r^i ‘iti|}es auti racliis ai . . ami yt*U<tw w :j***iy dollied with , A very similar to (b* ^ , ui lW- ^.(tf larger, often artainj^ ife ’ * * '*■ It is by aorue unv.^ ■ . <*u 4^ an* longer and inojt' > fru . n. the lateral bruncbi..- utofi' iiun)erou>, and *ht: ! extending over & i.' part ol ilu‘ pinnule. A variety, alxnd h high, in which the pnneitt-j btjoome rounded l» • the fructification is dumuiMhed •<» as to form a n t t,,v on each .side of the mid-wnn of the pinna*, f ulh'.; L, alf^reviafu. The former vsrii ty is not unfr^iuefit; the latter is fomwl rarely, in woods and on banks in CuioIkt- land and Vorkshire. A very singular tonu of this ftrn is sometimes sam, in which tlm of the piimn -a'^ ad out into a kind of fringe, so that the top of the - A . ]iki‘ a tassel. A sinuiar change rieeu® **.W ■■ Ui K‘--- ,4 •S'- •> Uui . i- a g. < - ^ , * . > - •• •O.Ki’.j.'iti, ujr liv' -'’CMiaj, twic^ placate; - -■ ftl ' « ' ‘ i-,-;. haviu^ t ; coudst*. sn j^y |Hio'':fid , jagged bemiiiful and weU..icarkeii lern, - ;tdy divide!*. 1 •nduility UiiOgiiis of its 0. nts ail curled 1!