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Dryopteris aemula (Aiton) Kuntze

hay-scented buckler-fern (Dryopteridaceae)

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Dryopteris aemula has glands on both surfaces of the leaf, and smells of newly mown hay when disturbed; it grows in Ireland and western Britain, with outlying populations in the New Forest, the Weald, the North York Moors and Orkney.

Brosdale (VC102: South Ebudes); 2014-08-11

 hay-scented buckler-fern / Dryopteris aemula: _Dryopteris aemula_ has glands on both surfaces of the leaf, and smells of newly mown hay when disturbed; it grows in Ireland and western Britain, with outlying populations in the New Forest, the Weald, the North York Moors and Orkney.

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