FERNS SriTAIiLE FOR THE AQUATIC GARDES. m 



usually about two or three feet high. Fronds triangular, the divisions twice 

 pinnate. Grows from a long, slender, running rootstock deep in the earth ; 

 fronds during early summer. Nearly any soil except clay; will endure full 

 sunlight and dry soil, but is best in damp shade. Common throughout the 

 world. 



Woodwardia areolata. (Chain Fern). One to two feet high. Fronds of 

 two kinds; the fertile nearly pinnate with narrow divisions, the sterile broader, 

 and produced earlier. Prefers salt water marshes and is found in America, 

 mostly along the Atlantic seaboard. 



W. virg-inica. (Chain Fern). Two to four feet high. Nearly twice 

 pinnate. Rootstock thick, creeping; fronds produced in early summer. 

 Prefers a peaty soil in half shade. Grows naturally in bogs in Eastern North 

 America. 



The Botrychiums or Grape Ferns, B. virginiimum and B. tcrnntum with 

 its varieties, are not true Ferns, but are sometimes cultivated. They have 

 ternate, much divided fronds, and bear spores in a transformed part of the 

 frond. They are natives of dark, damp woodlands, and will thrive if given the 

 same surroundings in the Fern garden. 



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