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Definition of Lace fern
1. Noun. Small tufted fern of northwestern America.
Generic synonyms: Fern
Group relationships: Cheilanthes, Genus Cheilanthes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lace Fern
Literary usage of Lace fern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Land of Sunshine by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1897)
"Cheilanthes Californica, the lace fern, is the most delicate of our varieties,
and you will often sec the best specimens away down between the cracks of ..."
2. California Plants in Their Homes: A Botanical Reader for Children by Alice Merritt Davidson (1898)
"They have various names, such as lace fern, lip fern, woolly-back fern, ...
28, is one leaf of a lace fern. Generally these ferns have a thick skin or a ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"... which the fronds in many instances are as finely cut as those of the Lace
Fern, and infinitely finer in effect. The soft Prickly Shield Fern has also ..."
4. "Alo'ha!": A Hawaiian Salutation by George Leonard Chaney (1880)
"... the misty gallium are no more unlike to all appearance than these sisters of
one family, — the birds'-nest fern of Hawaii and the lace- fern of Kauai. ..."
5. The Book of Fern Culture by Alfred Hemsley (1908)
"C. elegans (the Lace-Fern) is a most elegant species; this seems to do equally
well in the stove as the greenhouse ; the very finely cut fronds have a soft ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"... covered on both sides with slender, entangled hairs, which are more dense on
the under surface. Calif. Parryi, DC Eaton. lace fern. Lvs. 2-4 in. long, ..."
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