. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. V-~A \ i a Portion of pinna alternately in company with the Oak Fern and the Broad Beech Fern. It loves the damp woods, clambering over the roots of trees or carpeting thickly the hollows that lie between. SO. BROAD BEECH FERN. HEXAGON BEECH FERN Phegopteris hexagonoptera Quebec to Florida, in dry woods and on hill-sides, with statics eight to eighteen inches long. Fronds.—Triangular, as broad or broader than long, seven to twelve inches broad, thin, slightly hairy, often finely glandular be- neath, fr
. How to know the ferns; a guide to the names, haunts and habits of our common ferns. Ferns. V-~A \ i a Portion of pinna alternately in company with the Oak Fern and the Broad Beech Fern. It loves the damp woods, clambering over the roots of trees or carpeting thickly the hollows that lie between. SO. BROAD BEECH FERN. HEXAGON BEECH FERN Phegopteris hexagonoptera Quebec to Florida, in dry woods and on hill-sides, with statics eight to eighteen inches long. Fronds.—Triangular, as broad or broader than long, seven to twelve inches broad, thin, slightly hairy, often finely glandular be- neath, fragrant, once-pinnate ; pinna, the large, lowest ones broad- est near the middle and cut nearly to the midrib into linear- oblong, obtuse segments, the middle ones lance-shaped, tapering, the upper ones oblong, obtuse, toothed or entire; basal segments of the pinnje forming a continuous, many-angled wing along the main rachis ; fruit-dots round, small, near the margin ; indusium, none. In many ways this plant resembles its sister, the Long Beech Fern, but usually it is a larger plant, i88. 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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