CROUP V FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR; 

 SPORANGIA IN LINEAR OR OBLONG FRUIT -DOTS 



In the low, damp ground near the coast one may 

 expect to find this fern ; its haunts, where the nar- 

 row path winds between tall masses of sweet-pepper 

 bush and wet meadows where pogonia and calopo- 

 gon delight us in July, and the white-fringed orchids 

 may be found in later summer, are among the most 

 beautiful of the many beautiful kinds of country 

 that the fern and flower lover knows, to which his 

 feet stray inevitably in the season of green things, 

 and which are the solace of his " inward eye" when 

 that season is past. 



