Pinna of barren Frond — under side. 



STRUTHIOPTEKIS GERMANICA. 



WiLLDENOW. J. Smith. Fee. Kqnze. Pkesl. Link. 

 Kaulfuss. Sprengel. Moore and Houlston. 



PLATE LXIII. VOL. II. 



Onoclea strutMopteris, 

 Osmunda struthiopteris, 

 Struthiopteris Pennsylvanica, 

 Onoclea nodulosa, 



SWAETZ. SCHKUHE. HoOKEE. EoTH. 



LlNN^US. GUNN. 



WiLLDENOW. KUNZE. SmITH. MoOEE. 



ScHKUHE. 



Struthiopteris — Tlie Ostrich. Fern. 



Germanica — German. 



Struthiopteris Germanica is the king of the hardy Ferns; 

 easily cultivated and rapidly propagated from its long creeping 

 rhizoma, sometimes running beneath the surface of the ground 

 for seven or eight feet, and there throwing out its fronds, far 

 away from the parent plant. The symmetry in the habit of the 

 plant, its large barren fronds placed in a single row around 

 the caudex, so as to produce a circle, whilst its fertile fronds, 

 which are singular in form, rise up in the centre; these added 

 to its easy culture and perfect hardihood, must claim for it a 

 place in every out-door Fernery. 



Introduced into this country in the year 1760. 



A hardy deciduous species. 



Native of Germany and North America. 



Nearly every authority considers the S. Germanica as a 

 distinct species; that is, distinct from *S'. Pennsylvanica, never- 

 theless they so nearly approach each other in the form of the 



