. The American botanist : a monthly journal for the plant lover. Botany. The American Botanist VOL. XX JOLIET, ILL., MAY, 1914 No. 2 J^ow various greens in faint decrees Tjin^e the tati £froups of manj/ trees; While careless of the chan^iny j/ear, Zjhe pine J cerulean, never sere, TJowers distinguished from the rest, y[nd proudly vaunts his winter vest. —Warton. THE BEECH FERNS By Willard X. Clute. T3EGINNERS in fern study usually show a fondness for those species that have sufficient individuality of form to make their separation from other species easy, and are quite willing- to let the adva
. The American botanist : a monthly journal for the plant lover. Botany. The American Botanist VOL. XX JOLIET, ILL., MAY, 1914 No. 2 J^ow various greens in faint decrees Tjin^e the tati £froups of manj/ trees; While careless of the chan^iny j/ear, Zjhe pine J cerulean, never sere, TJowers distinguished from the rest, y[nd proudly vaunts his winter vest. —Warton. THE BEECH FERNS By Willard X. Clute. T3EGINNERS in fern study usually show a fondness for those species that have sufficient individuality of form to make their separation from other species easy, and are quite willing- to let the advanced students argue specific differences in groups where the species all look pretty much alike and where the decision ma}^ hang on some small difference in veining or the nature of the glands on the indusium. The maidenhair, the polypody, the cinnamon fern and the bracken are thus among the first to be known but it is usually not long before the beech ferns are added to the list if they happen to grow in the collector's region. The two species of beech fern are at once easy to dis- tingTiish from other ferns but are themselves so much alike that to distinguish them from each other requires a rather close comparison. The student finds here an excellent exercise in separating closely allied forms without the problem being com- plicated by the suspicion that still other species may be confused with them. With the exception of the much larger and coarser. 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 Binghamton, N. Y. : Willard N. Clute & Co.
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