. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. Kkrns. laving the nules, and gia. The ce of ferns character- 'olypodies, ividing the ile or fruit- t!ie berry- lick, fleshy the older ibtless, the ive mark is irings ; the ;ircinate or hite, mem- )f bulbous- fern seeds, ;rile frond, hese spore md closely wo \alves, to escape ict species entative of arlooking ider fertile ds existed jut which credulous nly it must ided down ndary lore, lurer faith Botry- ities in the ommonest FE/iXS. 259 ': 1-'i:rn'—Botrychii
. Studies of plant life in Canada, or, Gleanings from forest, lake and plain [microform]. Plants; Botany; Plantes; Botanique. Kkrns. laving the nules, and gia. The ce of ferns character- 'olypodies, ividing the ile or fruit- t!ie berry- lick, fleshy the older ibtless, the ive mark is irings ; the ;ircinate or hite, mem- )f bulbous- fern seeds, ;rile frond, hese spore md closely wo \alves, to escape ict species entative of arlooking ider fertile ds existed jut which credulous nly it must ided down ndary lore, lurer faith Botry- ities in the ommonest FE/iXS. 259 ': 1-'i:rn'—Botrychiiim Virginianiiiii, (Swz.) This fine fern may be found in the rich vegetable mould of our hardwood forests, and can be easily distinguished by its broad bright green, much divided, barren frond of thin texture, with the veins free -and forking; pinnules slender and jjomted; the upright, fertile frond much taller, slenderly branched, bearing the small round seed vessels of a. dark green colour, ripening to a bright reddish-brown or yellow, and shedding the spores in the month of July, or early in August. In some s])eciniens the leafy frond may be found placed obliquely, giving a more graceful air to the fern. The variety known as B. gracilc I take to be plants of the first and second years' growth. Having cultivated this fern for many years in a wild shady sjjot in my garden, I have watched it during its different stages from the first seedlings as they came up, just simple miniatures of the larger growth, at first small, with leafy spreading surface, cut and di\ided as in the older plants, but not forking into two divisions. The second season these plants became fruitful: though the fertile spike was very delicate, the whole size of the fern not exceeding six inches ; as it increased in age it became stouter in the scape and larger in Ijreadth, corresponding to the description of (iray. My observations were not confined to one or two specimens, but I grew and examined a large
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