. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. GROUP I STERILE AND FERTILE FRONDS TOTiaLY UNLIKE) FERTILE FRONDS NOT LEAF-LIKE IN APPEARANCE forms. This is specially liable to occur when some injury has befallen the plant. 3. CINNAMON FERN Osmunda cinnamomea Nova Scotia to Florida, in swampy places. Growing in a crown, one to five feet high. Sterile fronds.—Broadly lance-shaped, once-pinnate; pinna cut into broadly oblong divisions that do not reach the midvein, each pinna with a tuft of rusty wool at its base beneath. Fertile fronds.— Quite unlike
. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. GROUP I STERILE AND FERTILE FRONDS TOTiaLY UNLIKE) FERTILE FRONDS NOT LEAF-LIKE IN APPEARANCE forms. This is specially liable to occur when some injury has befallen the plant. 3. CINNAMON FERN Osmunda cinnamomea Nova Scotia to Florida, in swampy places. Growing in a crown, one to five feet high. Sterile fronds.—Broadly lance-shaped, once-pinnate; pinna cut into broadly oblong divisions that do not reach the midvein, each pinna with a tuft of rusty wool at its base beneath. Fertile fronds.— Quite unlike the ster- ile fronds, growing in the centre of the crown formed by the sterile fronds and usually about the same erect, with cinna- mon-colored spore-cases. In the form of little croziers, pro- tected from the cold by wrappings of rusty wool, the fer- tile fronds of the Cinnamon Fern appear every- where in our swamps and wet woods during the month of May. These fertile fronds, first dark- green, later cinnamon-brown, are quickly followed and encircled by the sterile ones, which grow in a tall, graceful crown. The fertile fronds soon 60. 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 Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861-1952. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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