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Definition of Brittle bladder fern
1. Noun. Delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brittle Bladder Fern
Literary usage of Brittle bladder fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Where to Find Ferns: With a Special Chapter on the Ferns Round London by Francis George Heath (1885)
"THE brittle bladder fern. Cystopteris fragilis. (Plate X., Fig. 2, page 67.)
LENGTH OF FROND.—Six to fourteen inches, depending on the character of its ..."
2. Young Englishwoman: A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty (1867)
"There art but three native specie« of Bladder Ferns, but of one of them there
are a great number of varieties. brittle bladder fern. ..."
3. Our woodland trees by Francis George Heath (1878)
"... brittle bladder fern—The Alpine Bladder Fern—The Mountain Bladder Fern—The
Oblong Woodsia—The Alpine Woodsia— The Male Fern—The Broad Buckler Fern—The ..."
4. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1830)
"Brittle Bladder-fern. Frond between oblong and lance- shaped, twice pinnate ;
leaflets egg-shaped, pinnatifid, the lobes from four to ten inches high, ..."
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