Flora of Worcester County. 



DIVISION I. PTERIDOPHYTA. 



(Ferns and Fern Allies?) 



POLYPODIACE^E (FERN FAMILY). 



Polypodium (Tourn.) L. Polypody. 



vulgare L. On rocks, common. 



Phegopteris (Presl.) Fee. Beech Fern. 



polypodioides Fe"e. In moist woods, common, 



hexagonoptera (Michx.) Fde. 



In dry woods and on hillsides, common. 

 Dryopteris (L.) Fe"e. Oak Fern. 



In moist woods and thickets, common. 

 Adiantum (Tourn.) L. Maidenhair. 

 pedatum L. 

 In woods and along walls and fences, common. A 



much-sought species. 

 Pteris L. Brake or Bracken, 

 aquilina L. 



In dry and in moist sunny places, very common. 



"There are few stiller things than the stillness of a summer's 

 noon such as this, a summer's noon in a broken woodland, with the 

 deer asleep in the bracken, and the twitter of birds silent in the 

 coppice, and hardly a leaf astir in the huge beeches that fling their 

 cool shade over the grass." Green's "Short Studies from England 

 and Italy," the first essay. 



