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ROYAL FERN

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERN , in See also:botany, the See also:common name for the fern Osmunda regalis, a native of See also:Britain, where it grows in bogs, marshy See also:woods, &c. It is a handsome plant with bi-pinnate fronds 2 to 6 ft. See also:long and r ft. or more broad; the tops of the fronds are fertile, the fertile pinnae being cylindrical and densely covered with the spore-cases, giving the See also:appearance of a dense panicle of See also:flowers, whence the plant is known as the flowering fern. There are various cultivated forfns-crislata has the ends of the fronds and the pinnae finely crested, and corymbifera has curiously forked and crested fronds. Several other See also:species, such as O. cinnamomea, O. Cl'aytoniana, are known as handsome greenhouse ferns' (see also FERNS).

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