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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    braorH«'i>, ?.«d the upper part of th»' frond. A dijitsift wiodiRg mid-vein may be seen ia each pinnule or 1 -he, ^he»«3c i<!sue lateral veins either gimpk- or rV jil'.tly -if!r*!n-d, near the termination of which, towards ‘ margiu, are placed the round clui^ters of fruenfi- a. arl ich in the autumn run in a crowded maas, -%»Ki form n marginal scries. The underground stc^m of tim feni is djirk-brovm and creeping, and its fibrou* roots tough. Frc$y» gathered specimaus exhihif a degree of downiness or the frond. It is a ran f. rn, growing among the stoniM? of tlie limestone w gi.tns. It d«5i^8 not thrive so well as several of the Hpe-eiea in gardens near towns, but sometimes in country garderit it grows well, requiring lime to be mixed with the soil. It seldom grows veiy abund*ntly, though it is very plen- tiful on the rocks of Buxton, alKuit Mniiorl Baths, and the Ched<lar cliffs, for it seems »ev. r t, ur.wild exc4 jc in lime*.tone district.^ :< nn *t . rittijnrm, 'A’.,-,,., j ,, / . • . j, . U.v«» ,»■ t i, ... : ■ , . ''4>K’r. Inv'-. r*,v ]? was ♦ '' iieu this bfvi vum again saw < in F niarainre, that ft.s claim j i not, howr»