Identifier: nativeflowersfer02meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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n collections. It is not found in Kansas, but Prof.Aughey includes it in the flora of Nebraska, which is all themore remarkable as it has not yet been discovered in Iowa. Asit occurs in Nebraska, west of Iowa, and in Wisconsin, on theeast, we might certainly expect to find it in some Iowa collec-tions, and it seems almost probable that further investigationswill yet add it to the list of Iowa plants. It may be of value tokeep these data on record, as they will give a clue in afteryears, if geographical changes should then be noticed. To the lover of the beautiful, the bright color, both of thepetals and the foliage, will be very pleasing. In its generalaspect the plant is of a formal order of beauty; yet the strictsymmetry and unity which appear in all its parts, even to theflower-buds, make it emphatically a work of art from the handof nature. EXPLANATIOV OK THE PLATE.— I. Flowering branch with its first expanded blossom —2. Lower portion of stem, showing tuberous root. VOL Plate
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ASPLENIIJM PARV^LUM. L h ASPLENIUM PARVULUM. SMALLER EBONY SPLEENWORT. NATURAL ORDER, FILICES (POLYPODIACE.^). ASPLFNIUM PARVULUM, Mertens and Galleotti. — Frond linear, pinnate ; pinna; o1)long, obtuse,entire, auricled at the base; stipe and rachis shining-brown, somewhat channelled. Stipeabout an inch in length, shining. Frond about three inches, attenuated at the apex,rinn^ sub-opposite, sessile, three to four lines long, and one to two lines broad, entire,auricled at the base on the upper side, a smaller auricle on the lower side. Sori crowded,almost covering up the under surface. (:\Iertens and Galleotti, i^Umoire sur Us fo!ii;ircs c/iiMexiquf.)

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