StNicholas [serial] . lliptical leaf about midway. Beautyand grandeur it has not been endowed with, but NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 1033 for its charming simplicity of form it has fewequals among the higher plants. In fact, whenwe examine its outlines, we see that it maybe fairly represented by drawing two parallelstraight lines to represent the stem and twocurved lines to represent the leaf. It grows inthe grass in wet, boggy places, compelling one tosearch to find it, and is, therefore, considereda particularly interesting find by related to the adders-tongue a
StNicholas [serial] . lliptical leaf about midway. Beautyand grandeur it has not been endowed with, but NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 1033 for its charming simplicity of form it has fewequals among the higher plants. In fact, whenwe examine its outlines, we see that it maybe fairly represented by drawing two parallelstraight lines to represent the stem and twocurved lines to represent the leaf. It grows inthe grass in wet, boggy places, compelling one tosearch to find it, and is, therefore, considereda particularly interesting find by related to the adders-tongue are thegrape-ferns and the rare moonwort. Most ofthese plants are too small and inconspicuous forthe average person to deign to notice, but ofunusual interest and a source of much perplexityto the botanist, owing to their tendency to pro-duce many varying forms. They have the samegeneral habit as the adders-tongue, but are more it, which shows how deeply those simple folkwere impressed by the little mysteries of common. THE ADDER S-TONGUE-FEKN. complex in outline. The sterile leaf or frond isoften deeply cut and divided, and the spore-bear-ing portion is branching. The moonwort is moreof a British subject than a Yankee, since it isfound in but few places south of the Canadianprovinces. In the days of superstition it wassupposed by some to be possessed of miraculouspowers, and an old-time botanist wrote regarding
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