Index Filicum: a Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, Extensively Illustrated: And an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns, with Synonymes, References, &c.&c, Volumes 1-10

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W. Pamplin, 1857 - 396 pages
 

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Page 11 - Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes esmerveillables et miraculeuses en nature: mesmes d'aucunes qui sont vrays zoophytes ou plantanimales, plantes et animaux tout ensemble pour avoir vie vegetative, sensitive et animale etc.
Page 12 - Miscellaneous Tracts and Collections relating to Natural History, selected from the Principal Writers of Antiquity on that subject.
Page 108 - A century of ferns; being figures with brief descriptions of one hundred new, or rare, or imperfectly known species of ferns from various parts of the world; a selection from the author's
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Page cxiv - ... involucre is sometimes produced beyond the edge of the frond, and stalked.' To this simple description Mr. Moore adds, 'This group, which is rather extensive (Sir W. Hooker has described eighty-five species, and there are fifteen in New Zealand only,) is in general well distinguished from Trichomanes by the involucres consisting of two separate valves instead of being blended into a cup.

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