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ROYAL FERN

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 791 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROYAL FERN , in botany, the common name for the
fern
  Osmunda regalis, a native of
Britain
 , where it grows in bogs, marshy
woods
 , &c. It is a handsome plant with bi-pinnate fronds 2 to 6 ft.
long
  and r ft. or more broad; the tops of the fronds are fertile, the fertile pinnae being cylindrical and densely covered with the spore-cases, giving the
appearance
  of a dense panicle of
flowers
 , whence the plant is known as the flowering
fern
 . There are various cultivated forfns-crislata has the ends of the fronds and the pinnae finely crested, and corymbifera has curiously forked and crested fronds. Several other
species
 , such as O. cinnamomea, O. Cl'aytoniana, are known as handsome greenhouse ferns' (see also FERNS).


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