. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. GROUP in FERTILE FRONDS UNIFORMLY SOMEWHAT LEAF-LIKE, YET DIFFERING NOTICEABLY FROM STERILE FRONDS not suggest the same species. Many of the pinnas were so turned as to display the ripe sporangia, which formed a bright- brown border to the pale, slender divis- ions. Here, too, the small sterile fronds were very rare. Growing from the broken rocks in among the Purple Cliff Brake were thrif- ty little tufts of the Maidenhair Spleenwort. This tiny plant seemed to have forgotten its shy- ness and to have f
. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. GROUP in FERTILE FRONDS UNIFORMLY SOMEWHAT LEAF-LIKE, YET DIFFERING NOTICEABLY FROM STERILE FRONDS not suggest the same species. Many of the pinnas were so turned as to display the ripe sporangia, which formed a bright- brown border to the pale, slender divis- ions. Here, too, the small sterile fronds were very rare. Growing from the broken rocks in among the Purple Cliff Brake were thrif- ty little tufts of the Maidenhair Spleenwort. This tiny plant seemed to have forgotten its shy- ness and to have forsworn its love for moist, shaded, mossy rocks. \t ventured boldly out upon these barren cliffs, exposing itself to the fierce glare of the sun and to every blast of wind, and holding itself upright with a saucy self- assurance that seemed strangely at variance with its nature. Near by a single patch of the Walking Leaf climbed up the face of the cliff, while, perhaps strang- est of all, from the decaying trunk of a tree, which lay pros- trate among the rocks, sprang a single small but perfect plant of the Ebony Spleenwort, a fern which was a complete stranger in this locality, so far as I could learn. 95. More compound frond of Purple CJ'ff Brake Sterile frond. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861-1952. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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