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parsley fern
noun
- a small bright green tufted European fern, Cryptogramma crispa, that grows on acid scree and rock in uplands
- any of several other plants with crisped foliage, resembling that of parsley
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In the interstices of the stones spleenwort and the parsley-fern grow; there are mosses and lichens too, and stone-crop.
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The Parsley Fern has a thick root-stock from which the fronds grow up in tufts.
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The Parsley Fern sends up its green fronds in the month of May, and the fertile leaves follow soon after.
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He found, for instance, a hill not far off which was entirely overgrown with the parsley-fern.
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