. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. nt. 'I'he nt to the Its a rich Rare in ich Dif- lesirable the tall, s from the "ronds and two are ijrow them 1 constant. ricties, all ish forms, hey might woods, is under the lewhat in I habitat of [s, and the ;land, the mountain re delicate ;re m our indant in. Scotland, hut is very rare in Ireland. It will always he acrt-ptahlc when sent to Mritain, and is of very easy culture, throwing out in every direction its slender, creeping, S( aly, root stocks, which hear
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. nt. 'I'he nt to the Its a rich Rare in ich Dif- lesirable the tall, s from the "ronds and two are ijrow them 1 constant. ricties, all ish forms, hey might woods, is under the lewhat in I habitat of [s, and the ;land, the mountain re delicate ;re m our indant in. Scotland, hut is very rare in Ireland. It will always he acrt-ptahlc when sent to Mritain, and is of very easy culture, throwing out in every direction its slender, creeping, S( aly, root stocks, which hear a profusion of lovely yellowish-green fronds. It rtquires plenty of moisture and shade, hut will grow readily in pots in the conservatory or in the open air. 'the frond is distim tly divided into three divisions, from which it is sometimes < alleil the Ternute I'oiypody, Ihis trifoliate character of the frond is distinctly .seen in the yoimg frioNi. I' /'Jii'^npttiis cahana,, (Fee.} This is an exceedingly rare species in (lanada, having been found only once by i'rof. Macoun, on the islands of Anticosti in iXi*.^ and by Messrs. Hell and Dawson at the Lake of the Woods. It is a much less rare fern in I'.ngland than here. .Marsh I-'krn Aipidimu TlulyptiHs, (.Sw/..) It may seem strange to Canadians that this fern should be induded in the list of desirable species to be sent to ICurope ; because, being found there at all, it might naturally be .supposed that its rapid growth and hardiness, which make it so abundant everywhere here in low» swampy ground, would also have the same effect in (Ireat Britain. This, however, is not the case ; and although pretty generally distributed over England, it is by no means common, while in W \'ps and Irelaiid it is rare, and in Scotland very rare, only one county so far having pro- duced it. It can be grow n with the greatest case in pots, whi( h may even stand in water. It is a most graceful object in cultivation, the lovely, delicat
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