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Approximately 160 species of phanerogams, three club-mosses Lycopodium annotinum, Diphasiastrum alpinum and Huperzia selago, two horsetails Equisetum arvense and E. variegatum, and four ferns Cystopteris fragilis, Dryopteris fragrans, Woodsia ilvensis and Woodsia glabella occur in the nominated area.
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Cystopteris fragilis and the Blechnum spicant, but I hear that the
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Among the rest, and one of the most abundant, was the beautiful _Cystopteris bulbifera_; its long, narrow, pale green, delicately cut, Dicksonia-like fronds bending toward the ground at the tip, as if about to take root for a new start, in the walking-fern's manner.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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In a lovely little ravine among over-hanging firs and mossy nooks of rock, not a quarter of a mile from the village, L. found specimens of the Cystopteris fragilis, Cystopteris alpina, Asplenium septentrionale, and several varieties of maiden hair.
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_ -- Specimens of the following rare ferns are much wanted to complete a collection: -- _Woodsia ilvensis_, _Woodsia alpina_, _Cystopteris montana_, _Lastrea cristata_, _Lastrea recurva_, _Lastrea multiflora_,
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