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le Phegopteris (Presl) Feee Beech Fern, 
Vernal or aestival ferns of shaded woods, with slender spreading 
rootstocks with which the stipes are continuous and bright green somewhat 
membranous triangular fronds which decay in early autumng sori small, round 
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without indusia, borne on the back of the veins below the tips of the pinmules 
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1. Pe Dryopteris (Le) Fees Oak Ferne Fronds smooth, broadly triangular, 
10-15 cm, wide, the stipe and rachis slender, ternate, the 3 triangular 
divisions all widely spreading, each 1- to 2-pinnate, the segments oblong, 
obtuse, entire or toothed; sori submarginal. (Dryopteris Linneana C. Chre), 
Rather frequent in Thuja and stream woods, at middle elevations, forming 
large or small coloniese 
2e Polypodium (Tourn.e) Le Polypodye 
W) Ours ferns of partially shaded habitats, the stipes articulated to the 
creeping rootstock, usually smooth. Sori round, naked, dorsal, in two rows 
on each side of the midrib or irregularly scattered, each sorus borne on 
the end of a free veinlete 
le Pe vulgare var. columbianum Gilbert. Western Polypodye Fronds rather 
stiff and of firm texture, the blades dark green, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 
8 9 lage ic AS 1 
7-15 em. long, the pinnae short, barely denticulate, abruptly acute, 12-22 mm, 
long; sori 2-2.5 mm, across, midway between midvein and margin, (Pe hesperium 
Maxon), 
Occasional on rock ledges and in crevices on often steep rock faces 3 
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(J cosmbpolitan species # is more than ordinarily constant. Priest R, drainage, 
Epling 65323 St. Joe Re, Epling & Putnam 10309. 
