A popular history of the British ferns and the allied plants : comprising the club-mosses, pepperworts and horsetails / by Thomas Moore.

  • Thomas Moore
Date:
1855
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Credit: A popular history of the British ferns and the allied plants : comprising the club-mosses, pepperworts and horsetails / by Thomas Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE STRUCTURE OF FERNS. To the question, What is a Pern ? which many of our young readers will be ready to ask, we will at once endea- vour to reply by means of a familiar comparison. It is presumed that every reader of this little book, even the youngest, can recognize a flower, not indeed by the aid of the somewhat technical intricacies to which the man of science would resort, but by means of that intuitive per- ception, which has grown up with the growing faculties and acquired strength from the little experiences of childhood and youth. We take for granted, that all our readers are familiar with such natural productions as the buttercup, the poppy, the brier-rose, the daisy, the dandelion, and others, so profusely dispersed over the meadows and corn- fields, and along the hedgerows, and by the waysides: even the young ears of corn and the spikes of meadow grasses must be well-remembered objects. Now, these all afford examples of flowers, or of masses of flowers. But then the plants from which the daisy heads and dandelions were plucked to be made into floral chains, and those which
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