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Pellaea

noun
1.
Genus of chiefly small rock-loving ferns; in some classification systems it is placed in the family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae.  Synonym: genus Pellaea.



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"Pellaea" Quotes from Famous Books



... bottom of the Valley is reached. Many a fine, hanging-garden aloft on breezy inaccessible heights owes to it its freshness and fullness of beauty; ferneries in shady nooks, filled with Adiantum, Woodwardia, Woodsia, Aspidium, Pellaea, and Cheilanthes, rosetted and tufted and ranged in lines, daintily overlapping, thatching the stupendous cliffs with softest beauty, some of the delicate fronds seeming to float on the warm moist air, without any connection with rock or stream. Nor ...
— The Yosemite • John Muir



Words linked to "Pellaea" :   rock brake, button fern, fern genus, cliff brake, coffee fern, Pteridaceae, Pellaea atropurpurea, family Pteridaceae, cliff-brake



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