FERNS 



PARTS OF A FERN 



Let us first try to find out something about the 

 parts of a fern. Do you remember how many kinds of 

 roots 3^ou found when you studied flowering plants? 

 The roots of ferns resemble some of these. They are 

 like stems growing under the groimd and sending out 

 Httle rootlets, as you see in the picture. This under- 



A Slender, Creeping Rootstock. 



A Short, Stout Root- 

 stock. 



ground stem is called a rootstock. Some rootstocks 

 are short and stout. They send up their leaves in 

 circles, but only in the spring. In these circles the 



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