Leaf: Like that of a leaflet of maidenhair fern, Fig.
Perhaps he could see her through the maidenhair fern.
The fronds of a maidenhair fern hanging in delicate profusion almost hid his face.
All the morning I have been digging maidenhair ferns with a boy I met on the rocks, who was in great sorrow because his father died suddenly a week ago of a pain in his heart.
We could hardly leave the Carboniferous time without at least brief mention of the ginkgo tree (Figure 109), or, as some call it, the maidenhair tree.
On the steep incline above the spring grew tiny maidenhair ferns, while higher up were larger ferns and brakes.
And all about them were ferns, a score of varieties, from the tiny gold-backs and maidenhair to huge brakes six and eight feet tall.
The Maidenhair Tree in the Gardens at Broadlands, Hants, England.
The oddest of all the ferns was the maidenhair spleen-wort, whose tiny leaves are of the shape of those of the well-known maidenhair fern.
Maidenhair and many another fern grew in masses among the great roots which twined like snakes over the rocky slopes.
The little streams that rushed down the hillsides were fringed with maidenhair fern, lighted up here and there with a bunch of pink primula or a tiny cluster of dog violets.
Behind the huts the densely-wooded hill drops sharply to where a stream of good and pure water riots among the maidenhair and mosses.
Some trailing maidenhair escaping from the paper caught in her dress, and broke off.
She decided that it was the flat, where the bunch of orchids and maidenhair had come and lived almost a week.
In humid spots about the stone bastions of the well moisture-loving maidenhair fern was clinging.
It was easy to imagine George Sand leaning on that wall, whose base was so thickly fringed with luxuriant maidenhair fern, revelling in the beauty of her surroundings.
The Wall Rue (Ruta muraria) is a whiteMaidenhair Fern, and is named by some Salvia vitoe.
The Maidenhair is called Polytrichon because it brings forth a multitude of hairs; [189] Calitrichon because it produces black and faire hair; Capillus veneris because it fosters grace and love.
But a tea brewed from our more common Maidenhair will answer the same purpose for tedious coughs.
It was formerly, in company with the common Maidenhair Fern, one of the five great capillary herbs.
The trueMaidenhair is named Adiantum, from the Greek: Quod denso imbre cadente destillans foliis tenuis non insidet humor, "Because the leaves are not wetted even by a heavily falling shower of rain.
Use maidenhair ferns at the base of the center piece and the candlesticks to give a touch of green.
The ice frozen in a miniature iceberg, and encircled by low, spreading maidenhair ferns and gleaming tiny opalescent lamps.
The scanty little streams trickling down some of the cool shady kloofs between the mountains are the home of a few white arums; and their rocky beds are fringed, though not very abundantly, with maidenhair fern.
All around his head and body was a delicate fringe of maidenhair fern.
Directly over his breast was a superb wreath of white roses, carnations and maidenhair ferns from that other loved poet and dear friend, for whom Whittier wrote his last poem, Dr.
When all was finished, they led her out into the great room, which was decorated with mats of colored palm, masses of sweet-smelling flowers and maidenhair fern.
In the centre of the vast table stood a golden urn filled with delicate maidenhair ferns and dragon orchids.
The delicate maidenhair lay like a rich carpet beneath our feet, while hundreds of magnificent climbing pitcher-plants doused us with water as we knocked against them.
The red gravel walk from the landing to the palace gate was strewn with hibiscus and alamander and yellow convolvulus flowers, and bordered with the delicate maidenhair fern.
The whole Order is relatively primitive, as shown most strikingly in its cryptogamic mode of fertilisation, by means of spermatozoids, which it shares with the maidenhair tree alone, among recent seed-plants.
Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
There is a cave lined with maidenhair and other ferns, difficult of access, and which was only discovered a few days ago.
These leaves when bruised have the spicy smell of the clove, Amid all the calladiums, crotons, and maidenhair ferns, it seems so strange to see no real flowers.
Up the tree had grown a wild grape-vine, making a green canopy over the great log which served as a seat, and some one had planted maidenhair ferns about both seat and spring to flourish beautifully in the damp, shady spot.
Her eyes brightened as they fell upon a glass of rosy laurel and delicate maidenhair fern that stood among the toast and eggs, strawberries and cream, on the tray.
Illustration: More compound frond of Purple Cliff Brake Sterile frond] Growing from the broken rocks in among the Purple Cliff Brake were thrifty little tufts of the Maidenhair Spleenwort.
Despite its apparent fragility, the Maidenhair is not difficult to cultivate if provided with sufficient shade and moisture.
Almost surely, if we search the moist, shaded rocks and ravines in the neighborhood, we shall greet with unfailing pleasure the lovely little Maidenhair Spleenwort.
Illustration: Maidenhair Spleenwort] Certainly it seems lovelier when it holds itself somewhat aloof from the beaten paths.
The truth is that the average layman who takes an interest in plants is as sensitive regarding the Maidenhair as he is about his recognition of an orchid.
Its usual companions are the Mountain Spleenwort and the Maidenhair Spleenwort.
You chance to be driving by a bank overgrown with the early meadow rue when he calls your attention to the unusual abundance of Maidenhair in the neighborhood.
Illustration: Lower pinnae] In such a retreat as this ravine the Maidenhair Spleenwort seems peculiarly at home.
For a few weeks the plants in question are passed without comment, but by another summer the rich growth of Maidenhair is again proudly exhibited.
Grannie had left the veranda, and on the table where she had been writing aunt Helen was filling many vases with maidenhair fern and La France roses.
The aqueduct carried by the bridge is still full of flowing water, and the drops which fall from it in a fine mist make a little rainbow as the afternoon sun shines through the archway draped with maidenhair fern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maidenhair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
