cat's-head fern

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n. Aspidium aculeatum, Sw.:


1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 220:

«The cat's-head fern; though why that name was given to it Ihave not the remotest idea. . . . It is full of beauty – – thepinnules so exquisitely formed and indented, and gemmed beneathwith absolute constellations of Spori Polystichumvestitum

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