OSMORRHIZA, 



LONGisTYLis Sweet Cicely 



BREViSTYLis Szveet Cicely 



OSMUNDA, 



REGALis Royal Fern 



ciNNAMOMEA Cinnamon Fern 



iNTERRUPTus Flowering Fern 



Named for St. Osmund, who came over from 

 Normandy in 1066 with William the Conqueror 

 and who was made chancellor and reformed 

 the liturgy. The root stalk continues many 

 years, forming crowns of fronds or hummocks 

 of imbricated stalk bases and interlacing 

 roots. The base of the stalks are winged 

 inwrapping the less developed like the scales of 

 an onion. In Pine swamp the fronds grow six 

 feet above the hummocks, curving outward and 

 form such stately beauty that they are deserv- 

 ing of name royal ferns. All the genera have 

 the stalks winged and woolly, nor is there any 

 absence of auricles or rounded lobes to dis- 

 tinguish the American from the European. 



OXALIS, 



viOLACEA Wood Sorrel 



STRicTA Wood Sorrel 



ACETOSELLA Wood Sorrel 



These plants bear small cleistogamous flowers 

 underground that are self fertilized. They 

 yield the salt of lemons due to oxalic acid. 

 The triple leaves are reputed to have been 

 used by Saint Patrick as a symbol of the 

 Trinity. 



OXYRIA, 



DIGYNA 



.Mountain Sorrel 



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