Between the huge brown boles of the redwoods woodwardia grew riotously, while through the great branches of these sentinels of the ages the sunlight filtered.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
Besides those common to England, the Pteris cretica grows luxuriantly in the damp ravines, as well as that most beautiful of European ferns, the woodwardia radicans, whose fronds are often more than six feet long.
"Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville"
Mary Somerville