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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt:...resembling our native species, is found on the rocky coasts of New Holland. Mr. Backhouse remarks of this plant:--" It becomes more narrow when growing further from the sea, and the leaves become more divided, and are separated into such narrow segments, that the lines of fructification are thrown upon their margins; it then becomes Ccenopteris odontitis, but every possible gradation is to be met with between this state and that in which it grows on rocks washed by the sea." 8. A. viride (Green Spleenwort).--Fronds linear, pinnate; pinnce alternate, roundish, egg-shaped, wedgeshaped at the base, bluntly serrated. This very pretty little fern varies much in size, according to the situation on which it grows. It is so like the Common Wall Spleenwort that it might at first be mistaken for it, but it may be distinguished by the colour of its slender rachis, which is green, while the stalk of the Wall Spleenwort is throughout of a purplish-black, and by the rounded notches on the margins of its leaf-like pinnnles-j! of Scotland-rn..v:: 'i.. it sends its wirv fibres. Hftp hn-a lighter green 1':n the other British v. Thongh the tipper part of ttT stalk is l wt it gradnally deepens in hftetowacV becoming at its base of n pftiplish K' abont a third of the length of th. 'li-the plant grows in tnfts. Th siir pinnules. This fern is very frequent in the Highlands of Scotland, growing on moist rocks, into whose crevices it sends its wiry fibres. Its hue is brighter and of a lighter green than the other British species of the genus. Though the upper part of its stalk is yellowish green, yet it gradually deepens in hue towards the lower parts, becoming at its base of a purplish brown. The stipes is about a third of the length of the whole frond, and the plant gro...