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Shown above the unfolding Southern maidenhair fern, Adiantum capillus-venerisWaiting for the shade to grow with the trees.

The Sunny Woodland-GBDW* « Fairegarden 2009

Shown above is a more advanced unfolding Adiantum capillus-venerisAnd the rains to return.

The Sunny Woodland-GBDW* « Fairegarden 2009

Shown above are the black stems of southern maidenhair fern, Adiatum capillus-veneris amongst the mosses of the trough planter.

Look Up-Look Down-Look All Around « Fairegarden 2009

This is due to the microclimatic conditions present in the collapsed galleries and the shallow chasms of the river valley, allowing Mediterranean species such as Adiantum capillus-veneris to grow beside Alpine species such as Primula auricula and Viola biflora.

Skocjan Caves Regional Park, Slovenia 2008

This strange action is called "capillary," from the resemblance the minute tubes bear to a hair, the Latin of which is _capillus_.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

THE CAPILLARIES (_capillus, _ a hair) form a fine network of tubes, connecting the ends of the arteries with the veins.

Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele

The true Maidenhair Fern (_Adiantum capillus veneris_), of exquisite foliage, and of a dark crimson colour, is a stranger in

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

Lindley states that almost any of them may be substituted for the Adiantum pedatum, and A. capillus veneris, which especially abound in these products.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

[FN#188] Al-Muzfir = the Twister; Zafáir al-Jinn = Adiantum capillus veneris Lúlúah = The Pearl, or Wild Heifer; see vol. ix.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

These imperceptible canals of blood have been called _capillaries_, from the Latin word, _capillus_, which means a hair; because the old learned men, who had no suspicion of the wonders hereafter to be revealed by the microscope, could think of no better way of expressing their delicacy, than by comparing them to hairs.

The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals Jean Mac�� 1854