TROIIP I STERILE AND FERTILE FRONDS TOTALLY UNLIKE; 

 FERTILE FRONDS NOT LEAF-LIKE IN APPEARANCE 



but because their fruiting fronds are somewhat 

 flower-like in appearance. There are three species of 

 Osmunda : the Cinnamon Fern, O. cinnamomea; the 

 Royal Fern, O. regalis; and the Interrupted Fern, O. 

 Claytoniana. All three are beautiful and striking 

 plants, producing their spores in May or June, and 

 conspicuous by reason of their luxuriant growth and 

 flower-like fruit clusters. 



The Osmundas are easily cultivated, and group 

 themselves effectively in shaded corners of the 

 garden. They need plenty of water, and thrive best 

 in a mixture of swamp-muck and fine loam. 



4. CURLY GRASS 



Schizaa pus ilia 

 Pine barrens of New Jersey. 



Sterile fronds. Hardly an inch long, linear, slender, flattened, 

 curly. 



Fertile fronds. Taller than the sterile fronds (three or four 

 inches in height), slender, with from four to six pairs of fruit-bearing 

 pinnae in September. 



Save in the herbarium I have never seen this very 

 local little plant, which is found in certain parts of 

 New Jersey. Gray assigns it to " low grounds, pine 

 barrens," while Dr. Eaton attributes it to the " drier 

 parts of sphagnous swamps among white cedars." 



In my lack of personal knowledge of Schiz&a, I 

 venture to quote from that excellent little quarter- 

 ly, the Fern Bulletin^ the following passage from an 



