BBAKB, OE BEACKEN. 



Pteris aquilina. LINN.ETTS. 



Pteris is the Greek pteros, a feather, applied of old 

 to some kind of Pern, and well applied here, Pteris 

 aquilina, the eagle feather, being doubly applicable to 

 the magnificent, however common, Bracken. Bracken 

 is Saxon ; it is the Female Fern of old writers before 

 Linnaeus, not to be confounded with TTielypteris, 

 the Feminine Fern, nor with Filix-foemina, the Lady 



