Floating antlerfern, Ceratopteris pteridoides. Aquatic fern found in fresh-water ditches in Essequibo (Dutch colony in Guyana) by C. S. Parker Esq. Pteris-like parkeria, Parkeria pteridoides. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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