Ferns
Original title: Fetos
Overview of the ferns of the Madeira archipelago: 45 species, 41 native, with commonest examples and reference works; ends with an unrelated stray bibliographic item.
Forty-one native ferns and 4 naturalised ones are known in the Madeira archipelago; these 45 species comprise 1 Cyatheacea, 3 Hymenophyllaceae, 40 Polypodiaceae and 1 Ophioglossacea. Of the 40 Polypodiaceae, 36 are native and 4 naturalised. Dicksonia culcita, Herit. (feto abrum), is a beautiful Cyatheacea that is common only in the Montado dos Pessegueiros (‘peach-tree pasture’); Davallia canariensis (cabrinha), Adiantum reniforme, Pteris arguta, Pteridium aquilinum (bracken), Woodwardia radicans (feto de botão), Athyrium Filix-foemina, Asplenium Adianthum-nigrum, Polystichum aculeatum, Nephrodium Filix-mas, etc. etc., are Polypodiaceae common in Madeira. Complete lists of the ferns of the Madeira archipelago are given in the Flora do Arquipelago da Madeira by C. A. Meneses (Funchal, 1914) and in Madeira Ferns by the same author (Funchal, 1906).
Few (A) plain words to visitors to the Island of Madeira on the present position of the English Church there. . . by a visitor. Funchal, 1848, 19 pp.
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Time
Years mentioned · 03-
Controversy over the Rev. T. K. Brown's Anglican chaplaincy in Madeira produced publications, including Lowe's protest, 'The Madeira Chaplaincy' in London and a pamphlet on the English Church in Funchal.
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Carlos Azevedo de Meneses published Madeira Ferns in Funchal.
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Carlos Azevedo de Meneses's Flora do Archipelago da Madeira was published in Funchal by the Junta Agrícola, on the proposal of Fernando Tolentino da Costa.
Place
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- Montado dos Pessegueiros
Porto Moniz. Only site where Dicksonia culcita is frequent.
Montado dos Pessegueiros is a locality in the parish and municipality of São Vicente, Madeira, with lava tubes in modern lava flows. It is one of the two remaining sites of the fern Dicksonia culcita (feto abrum) and the only one where it is frequent. It was suggested as a site, in the Ribeira do Inferno, for growing Cinchona succirubra.
People
People mentioned · 01- Carlos Azevedo de Meneses1863–1928
Botanist, author of the Flora do Arquipelago da Madeira (1914) and Madeira Ferns (1906), which list the fern species.