Where to Find Ferns With a Special Chapter On the Ferns Round London
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Rootstock small, upright in growth, fleshy, tube- rous, elongated. Fronds of two parts, barren and fruit- ful, consisting, upon a common stipes, of a single narrow, entire, somewhat grass-like, barren pinna, and of a taller branch forming a stem in continuation of the 82 WHERE TO FIND FERNS. stipes, and bearing at the upper end the fruitful spike. There is a single barren frond (though sometimes there may be two barren fronds on the same plant) and a single fruitful branch, as in the case of Op...hioglossum vutgatum, to which fern the present species bears a general, though diminutive, resemblance. Fructification the fruitful spike, pointed at the end, consists of two rows, one on each side of the rachis, of rounded spore-cases each row consisting, usually, of about five or six of these eases. HABITATS. Damp positions on heaths and on open pastures, amongst grass-roots. WHERE FOUND. The only locality generally known is the Island of Guernsey, where, in 1854, it was first discovered in the neighbourhood of Petit Bot Bay.
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