T4 PHEGOPTERIS 



BROAD BEECH FERN: 



Phegopteris hexagonoptera. 



Fronds triangular, similar in appearance to those 

 of the long beech fern, but usually broader than 

 long, pinnate; pinnae lance-shaped, cut nearly to 

 the midrib into oblong, blunt, more or less toothed 

 segments ; the lowest i3air of pinnae much the larg- 

 est, and the lower segments are much elongated. 

 The lower jjinnae form a continuous many-angled 

 wing along the main rachis ; variable in outline, and 

 in the cutting of the pinnae. 



Fruit dots small, without indusia, borne near the 

 margins of the segments. 



Found in rather open woods from Quebec and 

 New England to Minnesota and southward. 



