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tussock-like root stalk of last year and gradually unfurl into the 

 erect slender cinnamon plumes, which give the plant its name, 

 and from which clouds of the fine dust-like spores are detached 

 when we brush against them. About the time they have reached 

 this stage the green sterile fronds of the ordinary fern-like 

 structure unfurl, after which the fruiting fronds wither and 

 perish. This is our largest fern, and the broad green fronds, 

 sometimes three feet in length, form a conspicuous feature of 

 both wooded and open swamps. 



Spores Mature. — Early or mid-May, as the fronds uncoil, 

 very shortlv after which the fertile fronds begin to wither and 

 soon perish. 



Middle District. — Farmingdale, New Egypt, Delanco, Medford (S) De- 

 laire, Camden, Haddonfield (S), Lindenwold (S), Tomlin, Mickleton, 

 Swedesboro, Mantua, Glassboro, Beaver Dam. 



Pine Barrens. — Allaire (S), Atco (UP) Andrews, Cedar Brook, Ham- 

 monton (Bassett), Mays Landing (UP), Manumuskin (UP). 



Coast Strip. — Beach Haven Terrace (L), Spray Beach (L). 



Cape May.—Ooshtn (S), Cape Mav (OHB:). 



Osmunda claytoniana L. Clayton's Fern. 



Osniunda claytoniana Linnseus, Sp. PI. 1066. 1753 [Virginia]. — Britton 312. 



North Jersey, but casual or rare in our region, occurring only 

 in the Middle district. 



Spores Mature.- — Early or mid-May as the fronds uncoil. Fer- 

 tile portion is commonly dried up by late May, but persists 

 through the summer. 



Middle District. — Freehold (C), New Egypt, Kinkora, Delaire, near Cam- 

 den (UP), Swedesboro. Mullica Hill (H). 



Family SCHIZ^ACE^. 



SCHIZ/EA J. E. Smith. 

 Schizaea pusilla Pursh. Curly Grass. 



PL 66, Fig. I. 



Schizcea pusilla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 657. 1814 [Quaker Bridge, Burlington 

 Co., N. J.].— Rafinesque, Amer. Mo. Mag. U., p. i74- 1818.— Nuttall II. 

 249. — Knieskern 41. — Willis 79. — Britton 312.— Keller and Brown 8. — 

 Cooper, Ann. Lye. N. Y. II. 266. 1828.— Redfield, Bull. Torrey Club VI. 

 82. 1876.— Saunders, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1900, pp. 548, 549. 



