. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. ^ THE OSMUNDAS. MONG ferns as among flowering plants, there are certain species that so persistently force themselves upon our attention as to make it almost impossible not to know them. The i, members of the Osmunda family belong to ^^ this class. From the time their stout woolly crosiers peep from the ground in spring until their pinnae are mingling with the falling leaves of au- tumn, they are among the most conspicuous of our native species. In everything the family runs to ex- tremes. Their rootstocks are the largest,
. Our ferns in their haunts; a guide to all the native species. Ferns. ^ THE OSMUNDAS. MONG ferns as among flowering plants, there are certain species that so persistently force themselves upon our attention as to make it almost impossible not to know them. The i, members of the Osmunda family belong to ^^ this class. From the time their stout woolly crosiers peep from the ground in spring until their pinnae are mingling with the falling leaves of au- tumn, they are among the most conspicuous of our native species. In everything the family runs to ex- tremes. Their rootstocks are the largest, their crosiers the woolliest, their fronds the tallest and their fruit the earliest. They are also as common as conspicuous. Every farmer and wanderer countryward is fainiliar with their graceful forms, although he may have no other name for them than "; The Cinnamon Fern. Tile best known of the Osimindas is doubtless the cinnamon fern {Osmunda cinnamomed). It grows in nearly every piece of boggy ground in the Eastern States, neighbouring with the coarse herbage of the wild helle- bore and skunk's cabbage, but is at its best in shaded swamps and wet open woodlands where it forms jungles of almost tropical luxuriance. Frequently it takes large. 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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