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.
Poachers and Poaching | John Watson
The parsley fern has a thick root-stock from which the fronds grow up in tufts.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard Bastin
The parsley fern sends up its green fronds in the month of May, and the fertile leaves follow soon after.
How to Know the Ferns | S. Leonard Bastin
He found, for instance, a hill not far off which was entirely overgrown with the parsley-fern.
Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City | S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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