Weatherby: Ferns of the Dolomites 



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After leaving Karersee, we passed out of the limestone 

 belt into the porphyry and at once a familiar fern, Poly- 

 podium rulgare, hitherto unseen, made its appearance. 

 All down the Eggenthal it clothed the tops of boulders 

 and fringed the crests of ledges, quite in New England 

 fashion. At Klobenstein, near Bozen, we were pleased 

 to find that queer fern, Asplenium septentrionale. It 

 grew in the crevices of a loosely laid stone wall, in the 

 full glare of the sun, its crowded linear fronds looking 

 like tufts of coarse grass. 



And with it, we saw the last of our Dolomite ferns. 



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