. The fern lover's companion; a guide for the Northeastern States and Canada. h>\\\,trs. T. ni, H> Il^^ H jIt \ ( .> ) \ ar. frDiidbsa has its fronds ])artly sterile below andirregularly fertile towards the summit. Var. inctsa has the inner pinnules of some of the pinniemore or less cut-toothed. Var. glmidulinfa has glandular hairs on the pinna?,rachis and even the stipes of the sterile frond. This isknown only on the coastal plain from Rhode Island toMaryland. The Fern Lovers Companion 187 III (URLY GRASS FAMILY Curly Grass. Schizaea pusilla Small, slender ferns wit
. The fern lover's companion; a guide for the Northeastern States and Canada. h>\\\,trs. T. ni, H> Il^^ H jIt \ ( .> ) \ ar. frDiidbsa has its fronds ])artly sterile below andirregularly fertile towards the summit. Var. inctsa has the inner pinnules of some of the pinniemore or less cut-toothed. Var. glmidulinfa has glandular hairs on the pinna?,rachis and even the stipes of the sterile frond. This isknown only on the coastal plain from Rhode Island toMaryland. The Fern Lovers Companion 187 III (URLY GRASS FAMILY Curly Grass. Schizaea pusilla Small, slender ferns with linear or thready leaves, thesterile, one to two inches high and tortuons or curled likecorkscrews; fertile fronds longer, three to five inches, andhearing at the top about fi^e pairs of minute, fruited])inn;Te. Sj)orangia large, ovoid, sessile in a double rowalong the single vein of the narrow di^isions of the fertileleaves, and i)ro\-ided with a complete apical ring. (Schizaa,from a Greek root meaning to split, alluding to the cleftleaves of foreign species.) > . \i. Curly Grass. Schizcea -pusilla 188 The Ferx Lovers Compaxiox The curly grass is so minute that it is difEcult to dis-tinguish it when growing amid its companion plants, thegrasses, mosses, sundews, club mosses, etc. The sterileleaves are evergreen. Pine barrens of New Jersey, GrandLake, Xova Scotia, and in New Brunswick. Several newstations for the curly grass have recently been discoveredin the southwest counties of Nova Scotia by the GrayHerbarium expedition, mostly in bogs and hollows ofsandy peat or sphagnum.
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