The Victorian naturalist . It is a garden of ferns. The damprock walls and the trunks of the SoftTree-ferns are green with the daintyfronds of no less than four species ofFilmy-ferns; only one, the CommonFilmy-fern, is found elsewhere in theGrampians. Filmy-ferns, whose delic-ately soft and translucent fronds arebut a single cell thick, have been aptlydescribed as the fairies of the fernworld. Finger Fern is another luxuriantspecies not found elsewhere in thesemountains. Spleenworts, Shield-ferns,Bats-wing Fern, Necklace Fern and. /r_,The Finger Fern (Grammitis billardieri)(This was growing on
The Victorian naturalist . It is a garden of ferns. The damprock walls and the trunks of the SoftTree-ferns are green with the daintyfronds of no less than four species ofFilmy-ferns; only one, the CommonFilmy-fern, is found elsewhere in theGrampians. Filmy-ferns, whose delic-ately soft and translucent fronds arebut a single cell thick, have been aptlydescribed as the fairies of the fernworld. Finger Fern is another luxuriantspecies not found elsewhere in thesemountains. Spleenworts, Shield-ferns,Bats-wing Fern, Necklace Fern and. /r_,The Finger Fern (Grammitis billardieri)(This was growing on a Soft-Tree-fern trunkwith Common Filmy-fern) June, 1968 159
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