. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. THE CURLY GRASS AND THE CLIMBING FERN. 281. A FRUITING PINNA. branches, each of which is forked with a pair of frondlets at the end. These are about semi- circular in outline, and cut halfway or more toward the base into from five to seven ovate or oblong leaflets. The basal ones are eared on the lower side making each frondlet somewhat heart- shaped at base. In fertile fronds, the frondlets toward the apex are suddenly reduced to a panicle of many short nar- row segments, but with a general re- semblance in their form to t
. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. THE CURLY GRASS AND THE CLIMBING FERN. 281. A FRUITING PINNA. branches, each of which is forked with a pair of frondlets at the end. These are about semi- circular in outline, and cut halfway or more toward the base into from five to seven ovate or oblong leaflets. The basal ones are eared on the lower side making each frondlet somewhat heart- shaped at base. In fertile fronds, the frondlets toward the apex are suddenly reduced to a panicle of many short nar- row segments, but with a general re- semblance in their form to the sterile ones. On the underside of these segments, there is a double row of alternating, scale-like indusia each covering an egg-shaped sporecase. After the spores are ripe, the fertile portion dies, but the sterile frondlets remain green through the winter and until the young crosiers begin to develop in spring. In autumn the fronds are offered for sale for decorative purposes in many of our southern and eastern cities, and the great demand for it has nearly caused its extinction in some sections. In Connecticut the legislature once passed a law imposing a penalty upon any person who should uproot or carry away from the land of another, specimens of this fern. This is probably the only fern thus distinguished. This species is also called creeping fern, snake-tongue fern, Hartford fern and Windsor fern, the last two names referring to localities where it was once common. It ranges from Massachusetts to Florida, mostly near the coast, and has also been found in Kentucky and Ten- nessee, but not in the intervening territory. It grows in low thickets and on the banks of streams, twining over. 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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