StNicholas [serial] . 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. THE CURLY GRASS-FERN. So utterly devoid of the usual fern-like characters as to be hardlyworthy of the name. things. The adders-tongue, grape-ferns, andmoonwort are not true fer
StNicholas [serial] . 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. THE CURLY GRASS-FERN. So utterly devoid of the usual fern-like characters as to be hardlyworthy of the name. things. The adders-tongue, grape-ferns, andmoonwort are not true ferns, but are so closelyallied as to be commonly regarded as such. Theygrow in pastures and woodlands, some speciesbeing quite common and widely distributed. Vying with the adders-tongue in point of simpleunaffectedness is the curly grass, another smalland unassuming species of fern, so utterly de-void of the usual fern-like characters as to behardly worthy of the name. The unbotanicalperson would place it among the grasses. Thesterile fronds are grass-like and are but one ortwo inches long. Above these rise several erectstalks, three to five inches in height, with thespore-bearing portion at the top. In this countrythe only stations known for this plant are in cer-tain boggy lands of New Jersey. If the various tongues, so called, could speak,they would, no doubt, protest against the titles
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