Wilson's filmy fern

alternative Wilson's filmy-fern · alternative Wilson's Filmy Fern

1. uncountableHymenophyllum wilsonii, a fern in the family Hymenophyllaceae, the filmy ferns.

   Thankfully Wilson's filmy fern has survived in many sheltered and humid places, including these Borrowdale rainforests.

   2017, Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss, Wonderland: A Year of Britain's Wildlife, Day by Day, →ISBN

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   Here it was that the Lastrea Fœnisecii was growing in such luxuriance; and in the very cave of which it was the gate keeper I found Wilson's Filmy-Fern, clothing the moist sides as a curtain.

   1864, Margaret Plues, Rambles in Search of Flowerless Plants, page 41

   Parsley fern is plentiful on the higher hills, Wilson's filmy fern is common in sub-alpine glens, and moonwort, adder's tongue, hart's tongue and, very rarely, the royal fern are also to be got.

   1920, William Learmonth, Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, published 2012, →ISBN, page 38