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BRITISH FERNS. 
is Guernsey, where it was discovered growing wild by 
Mr. George Wolsey in i 860 . 
The leaves are not thick and erect, but slender and 
much curved. It grows in the lakes of Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, and is often collected there by 
tourists and botanists. 
COMMON PILLWORT. 
PILULARIA GLOBULIFERA. 
The name of this plant comes from piiula, a little pill, 
from its curious globular fructification. Its stem 
creeps along the watery ground and bears its fruit 
very near the soil. The leaves rise from the caudex; 
in their early stage curled like the fronds of ferns 
They are awl-shaped and bright green in colour. 
The little capsules, about the size of peppercorns and 
covered with brown hairs, contain the two kinds of 
fruit, and are always at the lower part of the stem. 
The plant is found all over the United Kingdom and 
is plentiful in the South. It flourishes all over Europe, 
and also in Western Australia. 
HORSETAILS. 
E Q UISE TA CEJE. 
The name of this family of plants is derived from the 
two words, equus, a horse, and seta, a hair or bristle, 
