...praise The more it seems excess; For wonderful indeed are all His works. BLACK-STALKED SPLEEN WORT. WHERE the copse-wood is the greenest, Where the fountain...lies longest, There the lady fern grows strongest. SIR W. SCOTT. THE ferns are waving all statelier here With seed-stored fronds thickly laid, And shedding,...

...somewhat kidney-shaped, jagged. Lady-Fern. Hob. Shaded woods and deans, common. July, Aug. If. i - " Where the copsewood is the greenest, ,•-• Where...sheenest. Where the morning dew lies longest. There the Lady-fern grows strongest." The stalk is commonly described as smooth, but it is as often chaffy all...

...places the Fairy Fern. Its place of natural growth is well described by Sir W. Scott, who says — " Where the copse-wood is the greenest, Where the fountain...lies longest, There the Lady Fern grows strongest." It grows two feet or more high, and is quite smooth in every part. Its stem has along it, on both sides,...

...novel of Waverley — " Where the copse-wood is the greenest, Where the fountain glistens sheerest. Where the morning dew lies longest, There the Lady Fern grows strongest." Asplenium lanreolatum, Lanceolate Spleenwort. — A very distinct and handsome species of Fern, little...

...high hedge banks. The former kinds in wet places, as Walter Scott remarks truly. " Where the hedge-row is the greenest. Where the fountain glistens sheenest,...lies longest. There the Lady Fern grows strongest." About London the principal stations of these ferns, are the valleys of Wimbledon Common, and also around...

...among dripping rocks, or in the depths of shady woods. ' Where the copse wood is greenest, Where tho fountain glistens sheenest, Where the morning dew...lies longest, There the Lady Fern grows strongest.' But members of this family occupy a great variety of situations. The filmy ferns flourish within the...

...the straight, formal walks she now took, instead of her dear old rambles, " Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountain glistens sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest." Edmund's high spirits, Agnes' playful...

...female-fern AEB 1459. N. 237. Bab. 413. Loc. Wet shady places on a sandy soil, rather rare. P. June, July. Where the Copsewood is the greenest. Where the fountain glistens sheenest ; Where Ihe morning dew iies longest, There the Lady-Fern grows strongest. SCOTT. LEA, 1 . Sherrard's Park-wood,...

...Market Bosworth: Packington: Aahby Old Parka : Thorpe Acre: Twycross. Ftlices, homfilix, a fern. " Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountain...sheenest : Where the morning dew lies longest, There the lady-fern grows strongest." SCOTT. " Fern-seed was a notable engine of witchcraft, and enabled the...

...Market Bosworth: Packington: Ashby Old Parks: Thorpe Acre: Twycross. Filices, from filix, a fern. . " Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountain...sheenest : Where the morning dew lies longest, There the lady-fern grows strongest." SCOTT. " Fern-seed was a notable engine of witchcraft, and enabled the...