Herbarium specimen: Athyrium filix-femina var. incisum
| Taxon: | Woodsiaceae: Athyrium filix-femina var. incisum |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Woodsiaceae: Athyrium filix-femina var. incisum |
| Collected by: | Mr Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Collection date: | 1874 |
| Locality: | Cultivated Garden. Root supposed to have come from South Wales |
| ex herb: | Rev. Augustin Ley |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| notes: | Spores smooth "In estimating length of stipes, some allowance needs to be made for conditions: plants which grow apart, not smothered by other herbage, should be contracted. My garden examples stand clear, each root apart" H C Watson (note in Herb. Boswell) [suggests cultivation was to test whether variety breeding true??] |
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Documented by chrisu on 1st June 2010.
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