GROUP VI 



FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND USUALLY 

 SIMILAR, FRUIT-DOTS ROUND 



37. NEW YORK FERN 



Aspidium Noveboracense (Dryopteris Noveboracensis) 



Newfoundland to South Carolina, in woods and open mead- 

 ows, One to more than two feet high, with stalks shorter than the 

 fronds. 



Fronds. Lance-shaped, tapering both ways from the middle 

 pinnate ; pinna lance-shaped, the lowest pairs shorter and deflexed, 

 divided into flat, oblong lobes which are not reflexed over the fruit- 

 dots ; fruit-dots round, distinct, near the margin ; indusium minute. 



At times the pale-green fronds of the New York 

 Fern throng to the roadside, which is flanked by a 

 tangled thicket of Osmundas, wild roses, and elder 

 bushes. 



Again, they stay quietly at home in the open marsh 

 or in the shadow of the hemlocks and cedars, where 



