. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. 186 THE LADY FERN AND ITS KIN. ing end but soon form a nearly circular clump two or three feet high. The stout young crosiers are covered with large brown scales which seldom persist until the fronds mature. The stipe and rachis are strewn with slender chaff and the upper surface of the fronds is often covered with longish hairs that give it a peculiarly velvety effect when growing. It is not very noticeable. SILVERY SPLEEN WORT. A thyrium thclypteroides. in herbarium specimens, and the books are silent upon the subject, al
. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. 186 THE LADY FERN AND ITS KIN. ing end but soon form a nearly circular clump two or three feet high. The stout young crosiers are covered with large brown scales which seldom persist until the fronds mature. The stipe and rachis are strewn with slender chaff and the upper surface of the fronds is often covered with longish hairs that give it a peculiarly velvety effect when growing. It is not very noticeable. SILVERY SPLEEN WORT. A thyrium thclypteroides. in herbarium specimens, and the books are silent upon the subject, although in the field one can often identify the species by this single feature. The blade is about oblong, tapering both ways from the middle, but is never so greatly reduced below as is that of the New York fern. It is thin and delicate, with oblong, acuminate pinnae cut nearly to the midrib into short, close, rounded, obscurely serrate lobes. When f the fronds are exposed to the sun, the blades become thicker, narrower, more erect and yellow-green in colour. Curiously enough, although they do not grow in full sunlight from choice, they are most fruitful in such situa- tions. The stipe is about one third the length of the 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 Clute, Willard Nelson, b. 1869. New York, F. A. Stokes Co
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