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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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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    26 i'.Br..’srR 01 (jh^at Britain. ot Lasirea, or it w termed G^mnoeJi plum Pheyopieru. 8. P. I ~ f:UPik with three branches, th* *>> . . ttjv '.iae cut into segment# riM; ; * -i t'JM uppennost cutii' ueinj^ uic,;^ This vexy clegai^t .luetiuios called, also, F«hr Mmuitaiu IViivj>.-;]\ or it IS known by tin; very olutractenirtic name of IVmter 'fhi<^‘«bj7»ii! htd Polypody, 'fbe fronds uw (I character of the plant, and it is >^gihjIvT in form, thill, smooth, and fragile in texturu. The nt^ht of the frond is from four to six inclies, and its colour is of a brighter green than th#i<»f almost any other British fern, though it loses thin bi ighttM'M* if placed in a spot exposed to the suu. »*« ' r .* -»!if«dding the young fronds is very rx'iRasitebft- >o»l April tlw.*se emerge from t'». ■whI - ‘ ^r X^wman lias said, thi'ce little b,iil> tin v i'ac/w- un * . ruU* daily unoail tK* ar iud 'i i,?k‘ yj. Uir ntd of iaA ofdy aiv- ihe IuOt. gim Al iMwimbt'S de- velo|>ed, but the dark-brown masses of »eed<a.-»‘3. ore crowding upon their under surfaces. Like many another plant, how'ever, w'hich rapidly attains perfection, it is somewhat short-lived, not surviving the earliest frosts. The stalk is very slender, about twice the length of the leafy part of the frond, of dai*k purplish colour, s^ry brittle, with a few scales at its base. The three bnu;. .« of the frond are triangular, each having a short i#lk, and the three uniting in an angular manner w ' '.he common stalk of the frond. They spn atl ; ,, and arc moved by the slightest wind, the uinkBe (.-ranch