Sentence:  Our common <WSD>Maidenhair</WSD> does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...]. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Either of two species of genus "Adiantum" of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially "Adiantum capillus-veneris"