172 SCHIZAEA 



CURLY GRASS: Schizaea pusilla. 



Fronds very narrow, grass-like, in no respect re- 

 sembling those of ordinary ferns; sterile fronds 

 an inch or more long, fertile fronds erect, 3 to 5 

 inches tall, bearing at the tip 4 or 5 pairs of short, 

 crowded, finger-like pinnae which enclose the spo- 

 rangia. 



Found in low grounds and pine barrens of New 

 Jersey, and in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. 



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