RETIRING PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS:From Bell Bank to Ballaghbeama and back-a personal fern odyssey

摘要

This is essentially the story of one fern and how it has been responsible for shaping my life and how perhaps in some small way I have been responsible for contributing to our understanding of its life. That fern is Vandenboschia speciosa (Willd.) G.Kunkel, still best known to most British botanists as Trichomanes speciosum Willd. or the Killarney fern.