CHAPTER XIV. 

 FLOWERLESS PLANTS. 



EXERCISE LVIII. 

 Ferns. 



You have often seen dense, green patches of plants, 

 more or less resembling Fig. 343, and called brakes, 



FIG. 843. 



FIG. 344. 



or ferns. They seem, when growing, to be all leaf 

 and no stem ; but you see in the figure that the stem 



