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20 coloured plates ADAM WHITE beautiful bogs Botanical botanist bridge broad brown CATLOW charming cliffs Clovelly common Containing a Familiar Dartmoor deeply cleft delight Descriptions Devonshire Dryopteris edge Edward Forbes Exmoor FERNY COMBES flowers frond Frond lance-shaped GARDENERS glen granite grows Hartland height hill History of British horse Ilfracombe illustrated inches indusium Lastrea dilatata lobes looking LOVELL REEVE lovely Lydford Lynmouth Lynton Meavy midrib miles moor Mosses narrow North Devon Osmunda Phegopteris pinnæ pinnules pleasant Polypodium Polypodium vulgare Popular British pretty Princetown ramosum reach resembles rises river road rocks round Royal 16mo Royal 4to Sampford Spiney scenes Seemann serrated serratures Shaugh Prior Shells Shield Fern side Simonsbath Sir W. J. Hooker sori species spinulosa spiny spot stalked stem stone stream trees Trentishoe turf turn twice divided unilaterale vale valley variety Vincent Brooks whole plant wild WILLIAM HENRY HARVEY Withypool woods
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