. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. FERNS. -25 and add thirteen pounds of loaf sugar and one pint of orange flower ;—Johnson's British Ferns, p. 11-12. It appears more probable that the familiar name " Maiden-hair," given by the gallant old herbalists of former times, was derived from the black-shining hair-like stripes, or from the soft brown covering of the young rootlets, than from any imaginary virtue in the plant for promoting the growth of the human hair. That singular and beaut
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. FERNS. -25 and add thirteen pounds of loaf sugar and one pint of orange flower ;—Johnson's British Ferns, p. 11-12. It appears more probable that the familiar name " Maiden-hair," given by the gallant old herbalists of former times, was derived from the black-shining hair-like stripes, or from the soft brown covering of the young rootlets, than from any imaginary virtue in the plant for promoting the growth of the human hair. That singular and beautiful little plant Spiranthes gracilis, owes its pretty name of Ladies' Tresses to the spiral arrangement of its delicate pearly-white flowers, on the twisted stalk, which suggested the idea of the ringlets of hair on a woman's head. CoMMOX Br-^kk—Bracken—Pteris aqnilina, () Though found growing so abundantly on dry, sunny wastes, and, therefore, considered by many persons indicative of a poor, sterile soil, this fern may also be seen flourishing exceedingly, in richly-wooded thickets, and even penetrating within the interior of the forest; proving the fact that though it will live and grow in light and poor soil, it thrives far better in a more generous one, where its rank, deep green, widely- expanded fronds attain three times the width and height that they do on that which is sterile. Were it less common it would excite our warmest admiration, from its finely developed branching or fan-like outline, rich colour -nd abundance of fine coffee-brown sori. There is, too, a great variety, both in colour and shape, of the fronds ; some are of the most delicate tender tint of green, others dark and glossy with purplish stems of various shades, while some are of a rich grass-green, or again, a yellower tint or bronze prevails. The usual form of a full-grown frond is almost triangular, divided into three spreading bi-pinnate branches, in some the lower pinnules of the pinnte a
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