Ferny Combes: A Ramble After Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of DevonshireLovell Reeve, 1856 - 118 Seiten |
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20 coloured plates beautiful bogs Botanical botanist bridge broad brown CATLOW charming cliffs Clovelly Conchology Containing a Familiar Dartmoor deeply cleft delight descriptions Devonshire Dryopteris edge Edward Forbes Exmoor flowers frond Frond lance-shaped GARDENERS glen granite grows Hartland height hills History of British horse Ilfracombe illustrated inches indusium Lastrea dilatata lobes looking LOVELL REEVE lovely Lydford Lynmouth Lynton masses Meavy midrib miles moor Mosses narrow North Devon Osmunda Phegopteris pinnæ pinnules plates by Fitch pleasant Polypodium Polypodium vulgare Popular British pretty Princetown ramosum reach resembles rises river road rocks round Royal 16mo Royal 4to Sampford Spiney scenes seed Seemann serrated serratures Shaugh Prior Shield Fern side Simonsbath Sir W. J. Hooker sori species spinulosa spiny spot stalked stem stone stream tion trees Trentishoe turn twice divided unilaterale vale valley variety Vincent Brooks whole plant wild WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY Withypool woods
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Seite 8 - The fair authoress of this pretty volume has shown more than the usual good taste of her sex in the selection of her mode of conveying to the young interesting instruction upon pleasing topics. She bids them join in a ramble through the sylvan wilds, and at her command the fragile lichen, the gnarled oak, the towering beech, the graceful chestnut, and the waving poplar, discourse eloquently, and tell their respective histories and uses.
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