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Limestone Fern

Limestone fern illustrated by William Dickes for The Ferns of Great Britain (1855) by Anne Pratt.

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It's that time of the week!

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Fern Friday

Licorice Fern aka Polypodium glycyrrhiza

I use to spend lots of time chewing this fern's root. So Sweet. I'm thinking of adding this fern to my garden this year. Summer dormant and winter green I know it doesn't offer much to the bees but then it doesn't eat them either.

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Glass Art by Neile Cooper

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Fern Friday!

Asplenium sulcatum. SciArt by William Dickes. Anne Pratt, Ferns of Great Britain (1855). Contributed for digitization by Cornell University Library. 

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Spring is unfurling.... by Barbara Via Flickr:

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Fern Friday: Soft Tree Fern

The soft tree fern (Cyathea smithii) is a native plant of New Zealand, which is called katote by the Maori. 

SciArt by Walter Hood Fitch for Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843, Vol. 2, Part 2 (1855).

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Happy Fern Friday!

Two fabulous ferns from James Britten's European Ferns (1879-81). On the left is the Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), and on the right is another spleenwort (Asplenium sagittatum).

These ferns were commonly called "spleenworts" because they were thought to treat disorders of the spleen based on the "Doctrine of Signatures", which held that plants that resembled the shapes of body parts were meant to treat ailments of those body parts.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Harvard University Botany Libraries for digitizing.