. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. THE WOOD FERNS. 147. The Fragrant Fern. The fragrant fern {Aspidium fragrans) cannot be mistaken for any of its relatives, but there are many collectors who would gladly mistake it for anything, if by so doing, they might add it to their collections. It is a rare and hardy little species, growing in clefts in the face of precipices in the northern parts of our country and yields only to the en- during and persistent fern hunter. The f ro n d s are usually not more than| eight inches long and grow in circular tufts. They are
. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. THE WOOD FERNS. 147. The Fragrant Fern. The fragrant fern {Aspidium fragrans) cannot be mistaken for any of its relatives, but there are many collectors who would gladly mistake it for anything, if by so doing, they might add it to their collections. It is a rare and hardy little species, growing in clefts in the face of precipices in the northern parts of our country and yields only to the en- during and persistent fern hunter. The f ro n d s are usually not more than| eight inches long and grow in circular tufts. They are narrowly lanceolate and twice pinnate, the oblong pinnules being deeply toothed. The short stipes that bear them are covered more or less thickly with chaffy brown th sides of the frond are glandu- nder surface most so. The sori on the narrow pinnules and are with unusually large membrana- jsia. These often entirely conceal under surface of the frond. A collector who has had the pleasure of finding this fern in a new station, thus writes of it in the Fern Bul- letin. " There could be no possible question of its identity, this time. It was way up on the bare dry face of the clii?, far out of reach ex. FRAGRANT FERN. A spidium /ragra 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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