fern

• His mind was also burdened with anxiety about his mother and sister He was sitting one day while in this state at an angle of the garden trying to devote his entire mind to the portrayal of a tree-fern, and vainly endeavouring to prevent Hester Sommers from coming between him and the paper, when he was summoned to attend upon Ben-Ahmed. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
• There is fern, which is better Leontion. —  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
• A fern is always a beautiful object, but these tree-ferns were more than beautiful--they were grand The farther we went the more beauties we found, and we kept on noting down places to visit again where there were palm and other trees full of fruit, which evidently formed the larder of various kinds of beautiful birds. —  Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas
• Yet as one walks through this broad expanse of brake-fern, among which the deer are grazing, with the line of the Downs, culminating in Chanctonbury Ring, in view, it requires a severe effort to bring the mind to the consideration of Belinda's loss and all the surrounding drama of the toilet and the card table. —  Highways ; Byways in Sussex
• As soon as the fern is firmly established, the prothallium withers away Comparing this now with the development of the sporogonium in the bryophytes, it is evident that the young fern is the equivalent of the sporogonium or spore fruit of the former, being, like it, the direct product of the fertilized egg cell; and the prothallium represents the moss or liverwort, upon which are borne the sexual organs. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses

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