THE CURLY GRASS AND THE 

 CLIMBING FERN. 



EOPLE who are not fern students can 

 usually distinguish between ferns 

 and flowering plants although they do 

 sometimes include the feathery leaves of 

 certain flowering plants, like yarrow, 

 among the former. In the case of the 

 two species here mentioned, however, it 

 would not be surprising if they did not 

 recognise them as ferns. There is very 

 little that is fern-like in their forms, and 

 scientists, drawing a nice distinction 

 from the structure of their sporangia, 

 place them in a separate family known as 

 the Schizaeaceae. 



The Curly Grass. 



To see the curly grass (Schizcea pusilld) in its 

 haunts, one must visit the southern part of New Jersey 

 where it is fairly common on the border of many sandy 

 cranberry bogs. For a long time this small state con- 

 tained all the known stations for the plant, and it is still 

 the only section in which it is plentiful. 



Although never found far from the sea-coast, this is a 



