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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...weeks before. The separate plants had a vigorous, bushy appearance that did 1 The unpromising wall of rock which rose beside us." YET DIFFERING NOTICEABLY FROM STERILE FRONDS not suggest the same species. Many of the pinnae were so turned as to display the ripe sporangia, which formed a brightbrown border to the pale, slender divisions. Here, too, the small sterile fronds were very rare. Growing from the broken rocks in among the Purple Cliff Brake were thrifty little tufts of the Maidenhair Spleenwort. This tiny plant seemed to have forgotten its shyness and to have forsworn its love for moist, shaded, mossy rocks. It ventured boldly out upon these barren cliffs, exposing itself to the fierce glare of the sun and to every blast of wind, and holding itself upright with a saucy selfassurance that seemed strangely at variance with its nature. Near by a single patch of the Walking Leaf climbed up the face of the cliff, while, perhaps strangest of all, from the decaying trunk of a tree, which lay prostrate among the rocks, sprang a single small but perfect plant of the Ebony Spleenwort, a fern which was a complete stranger in this locality, so far as I could learn. 95 More compound frond of Purple Cliff Brake Sterile frond GROUP III YET DIFFERING NOTICEABLY FROM STERILE FRONDS 17. CHRISTMAS FERN Aspidium acrostichoides (Dryopteris acrostichoides) New Brunswick to Florida, in rocky woods. One to two and a half feet high, with very chaffy stalks. Fronds.--Lance-shaped, once-pinnate, fertile fronds contracted toward the summit; pinna narrowly lance-shaped, half halberd shaped at the slightly stalked base, bristly-toothed, the upper ones on the fertile fronds contracted and smaller; fruit-dots round, close, confluent with age, nearly covering the under surface...Hide synopsis
Description:New. This item is printed on demand. 1899. Illustrated by...New. This item is printed on demand. 1899. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith. Contents: Ferns as a Hobby; When and Where to Find Ferns; Explanation of Terms; Fertilization, Development, and Fructification of Ferns; Notable Fern Familie.
Description:New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of...New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or wer.
Description:New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of...New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or wer.
Description:New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of...New. This item is printed on demand. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or wer.
Description:New. This item is printed on demand. 1899. Illustrated by...New. This item is printed on demand. 1899. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith. Contents: Ferns as a Hobby; When and Where to Find Ferns; Explanation of Terms; Fertilization, Development, and Fructification of Ferns; Notable Fern Familie.
