. How to know the ferns [microform] : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns. Ferns; Fougères. GROUP II FERTILE FRONDS PARTIALLY LEAF-LIKE, FERTILE PORTION UNLIKE REST OF FROND. Part of fertile pinnule only instance in statute law," IVofcssor Eat(3n re- marks, " where a plant has received special legal protection solely on account of its ; I have never seen the i)lant growin<;, but remem- ber that when a child my home in New York was abundantly decorated with the pressed fronds which had been brought Irom Hart- ford for the purpose. Even in that l
. How to know the ferns [microform] : a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common ferns. Ferns; Fougères. GROUP II FERTILE FRONDS PARTIALLY LEAF-LIKE, FERTILE PORTION UNLIKE REST OF FROND. Part of fertile pinnule only instance in statute law," IVofcssor Eat(3n re- marks, " where a plant has received special legal protection solely on account of its ; I have never seen the i)lant growin<;, but remem- ber that when a child my home in New York was abundantly decorated with the pressed fronds which had been brought Irom Hart- ford for the purpose. Even in that lifeless condition their grace and beauty made a deep impres- sion on my mind. Mr. Saunders has described it as he found it growing in com- pany with ScJiizcca, in the New Jersey pine barrens : " Lygodium palmatum ... is one of the love- liest of American plants, with twining stem adorned with palmate leaflets, bearing small resemblance to the popular idea of a fern. It loves the shaded, mossy banks of the quiet streams whose cool, clear, amber waters, murmuring over beds of pure white sand, are so characteristic of the pine country. There the graceful fronds are to be found, some- times clambering a yard high over the bushes and cat-briers ; sometimes trailing down the bank until their tips touch the surface of the water. ** The Lygodium is reckoned among the rare plants of the region—though often growing in good- sized patches when found at all—and is getting rarer. Many of the localities which knew it once now know it no more, bo^h because of the 76 ;pre-. 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 Dana, William Starr, Mrs. , 1861-1952. Toronto : Publishers' Syndicate
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