. The book of choice ferns : for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. OSMUND A. 39 the Teign, and at Ivy Bridge, on the Erme, in Devon, to Speke, between Crosby and Formby, and on Chat Moss, near Liverpool, as well as from Low- gelt Bridge, AUowby, and Keswick, in Cumberland, to Leith Hill and near Dorking, in Surrey. It is also found in the Isle of Man, the Isle
. The book of choice ferns : for the garden, conservatory, and stove : describing and giving explicit cultural directions for the best and most striking ferns and selaginellas in cultivation. Illustrated with coloured plates and numerous wood engravings, specially prepared for this work . Ferns; Ferns. OSMUND A. 39 the Teign, and at Ivy Bridge, on the Erme, in Devon, to Speke, between Crosby and Formby, and on Chat Moss, near Liverpool, as well as from Low- gelt Bridge, AUowby, and Keswick, in Cumberland, to Leith Hill and near Dorking, in Surrey. It is also found in the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, Warwickshire, Kent, and many other places too numerous to be mentioned. Of all Ferns belonging to the Flora of Great Britain, probably 0. regalis is the one which most attracted the attention of early writers, for we find that Gerarde, in his " Herbal," published in 1597, speaking of this Fern, says : " It groweth in the midst of a bog at the further end of Hamp- stead Heath, from London, at the bottome of a hill adjoyning to a small cottage, and in divers other places; as also upon divers bogges on a heath or common neere unto Bruntwood, in Essex, &c., &; Things have greatly changed since Gerarde's time in regard to British plants of all kinds whose habitats were situated in the vicinity of large towns. 0. regalis is the typical Flowering Fern, and in this country varies little in general appearance. Its rootstock is so covered with overlapping stalk-bases of former growths and by interlacing roots that the whole forms a massive, spongy clump of great thickness ; and a peculiarity of this species resides in its sending out strong, blackish rootlets in great abundance, some of which creep in an upward direction between the scales, while others pierce directly through them, thus binding the whole together and giving it great strength and solidity. Most of the. f/g, 73. Portion of Frond of Osmunda regalis (i nat. size).. Please note that th
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