Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . oftheir parents. The law was so laid down by of the judges in the case of the childrenof Frederick, Prince of Wales, in The ]iolicyof these rules has been much questioned, and theconduct of George IV. in regard to his marriage*with Mrs Kitzherbert (ipv.) in 1785 attords a strongargument against the existing law. The civil list being found inadequate to themaintenance of the royal family, the sovereign hasbeen empowered to grant annuities, payalde out ofthe Consolidated Kiiud, to various members of herfamily ; the
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . oftheir parents. The law was so laid down by of the judges in the case of the childrenof Frederick, Prince of Wales, in The ]iolicyof these rules has been much questioned, and theconduct of George IV. in regard to his marriage*with Mrs Kitzherbert (ipv.) in 1785 attords a strongargument against the existing law. The civil list being found inadequate to themaintenance of the royal family, the sovereign hasbeen empowered to grant annuities, payalde out ofthe Consolidated Kiiud, to various members of herfamily ; the aggregate anu)unt of these allowancesis now £188,000 per annum. Any propose<l grantto a royal personage is tolerably certain to beopposed in the House of Commons : the argumentsin favour of such grants were forcibly stated byMr Gladstone in his speech on the proposal tomake provision for the children of the Prince ofWales, delivered iluring the session of 1890. Royal Fern {Osmundd), the most striking ofBritish ferns ; it grows in damp places, and used to. b 65* Royal Fern {Otmttnda regaJis):a, leaflet of iKirren frond ; I, i)ortioii of fertile fiond. be fairly common in the districts of Scotland andIreland of a very moist climate, but is di.«appearing before collectors. It has two kinds of leaves,sterile and fertile; the sterile are bipinnate ; thefertile, covered with spore-cases, have the appear-ance of a pannicled inllorescence, due to theabsorption of the central tissues—hence the nameFlowering Fern. The genus is allieil to another,Todea, which has oidy one kind of leaf, and thetwo are included in the order Osmnndacca. Thereaie only a \ery few species. The order occiii)ies aposition between the typical ferns and the .Marat-tiace;e. The spores give rise at once to the pro-thallium without the intervention of a protonema ;and the prolhalli tend to be nnise.\ual— tohave the male and female oigans on separateplants ; or the male organs appear im the protliallusbef
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