. The fern lover's companion; a guide for the Northeastern States and Canada. m. Sporesbrown. THE POLYPODIES ^ 1. Polypody. Fuli/podhim From the Greek meaning many-footed, alluding to thebranching rootstocks.) Simple ferns with stipes articulated to the creepingrootstocks, which are covered with brown, chaffy round, naked, arranged on the back of the frondin one or more rows each side of the midrib. Sporangiapedicelled, ])rovided with a vertical ring which burststransversely. A large genus Avith about 850 s])ecies,widely distributed, mostly in tro])ical regions. (1) Co^nIO^Po
. The fern lover's companion; a guide for the Northeastern States and Canada. m. Sporesbrown. THE POLYPODIES ^ 1. Polypody. Fuli/podhim From the Greek meaning many-footed, alluding to thebranching rootstocks.) Simple ferns with stipes articulated to the creepingrootstocks, which are covered with brown, chaffy round, naked, arranged on the back of the frondin one or more rows each side of the midrib. Sporangiapedicelled, ])rovided with a vertical ring which burststransversely. A large genus Avith about 850 s])ecies,widely distributed, mostly in tro])ical regions. (1) Co^nIO^PoLYprjDY. Foh/pudium rulgareFronds somewhat leathery in texture, evergreen, fourto ten inches tall, smooth, oblong, and nearly ]) large fruit-dots nearly midway between the midriband the margin, but nearer the margin. Common everywhere on cliffs, usually in half shade,and may at times .spring out of decaying logs or the trunksof trees. As the jointed stipes, harking back to someancient mode of fern growth, fall away from the rootstocks 44 The Ferx Lovers Compaxiox.
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