Ceterach

Ceterach Bridge, a couple of miles to the north in Matley Wood, was named after another fern, the rustyback, discovered and recorded in the Tomes in August 1958 by a schoolboy naturalist called George Peterken.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Ceterach Bridge, a couple of miles to the north in Matley Wood, was named after another fern, the rustyback, discovered and recorded in the Tomes in August 1958 by a schoolboy naturalist called George Peterken.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I also got a new fern, the fourth species out of 1,300 sp. it is a Ceterach or Grammitis, a curious stalked snuff - ball, and one or two other Fungi, with an inverted cap, were met with.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

-- In Ceterach the same thing occurs precisely, with this difference, that the _capita_ of the ramenta are highly developed; and still more, that the terminations of each pinnula of the young frond, are mere scales without a terminal _head_.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The frond of Ceterach is very frondose-looking, it has stomata on its under surface, and the cells of the cuticle very sinuate.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

To-morrow I examine Ceterach, assured that the scales of its under face are reducible to the same type.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

According to Hardouin's note, p. 3777., it is the _Ceterach_ of the shops, or rather _Citrach_; a great favourite of the mules, [Greek: hêmionoi], witness Theophrastus, _Hist. _, ix.

Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850 Various

Native treatment consisted of frequent and hot fomentations with a thick decoction of ferns, Ceterach, and Trichomanes nigra boiled with wild peppermint.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

And if there be any obstructions of the Liver, or Spleene, with any cold distemper, you may mixe the powder of _Ceterach_; to which you may adde Amber, or Muske, to please the scent.

Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sicknesse Diverted, and Cured, especially the Plague of the Guts; vulgarly called The New Disease ; Fluxes, Consumptions, & Coughs of the Lungs, with sundry other desperate Diseases. By it also, Conception is Caused, the Birth Hastened and facilitated, Beauty Gain'd and continued. Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma 1630

We have one to correspond with the adder’s tongue and moonwort, with the Adiantum nigrum and Capillus Veneris, with the Blechnum boreale, with the Ceterach and Ruta muraria, and with the

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