Ferns and Fern Allies 



seems to accurately know. Some say it is derived from a 

 fancied resemblance between the frond and an eagle's wing, 

 while others imagine they can trace the outline of the heraldic 

 eagle in a cross-section of the stalk. 



SLENDER LIPFERN 



Chelianthes Fcei. Fern Family 



Rootstock: covered with brown scales lined with black. Stems: 

 densely tufted. Leaves: ovate-lanceolate in outline, two-pinnate, with 

 the pinnules pinnatifid, the upper surface tomentose, the lower densely 

 matted with whitish-brown woolly hairs. 



A small rock-loving fern, which grows in dense mats, 

 with much-divided leaves, and the fruit dots placed at the 

 ends of the veins. 



PURPLE CLIFF BRAKE 



Pellcea atropurpurea. Fern Family 



Rootstock: short, densely clothed with rusty hair-like scales. Stems: 

 tufted, dark purple, veins obscure, commonly twice-forked. Leaves: 

 coreacious, lanceolate in outline, simply pinnate, or two-pinnate below ; 

 rachis brown or purple. 



A medium-sized fern, whose distinguishing features are 

 a purple stem, and an undivided leaf bordered by bright 

 brown sporangia. It is usually found growing on lime- 

 stone rocks, and, unfortunately for the fern-hunter, in very 

 inaccessible places, where the bushy tufts of its greyish- 

 green foliage flourish in the crannies among the cliffs. 



NOOTKA ROCK BRAKE 



Crypto gramma acrostichoidcs. Fern Family 



Rootstock: stout, chaffy, short. Stems: densely tufted, slender. 

 Leaves: ovate in outline, thin, glabrous, the sterile shorter than the 

 fertile, the margins involute to the midrib at first, expanded at maturity, 

 and exposing the sporanges. 



