CRDIIP I STERILE AND FERTILE FRONDS TOTALLY UNLIKE; 

 FERTILE FRONDS NOT LEAF-LIKE IN APPEaPANCE 



but because their fruiting fronds are somewhat 

 flower-like in appearance. There are three species of 

 Osmunda : the Cinnamon Fern, O. cinnamomea; the 

 Royal Fern, O. regalis; and the Interrupted Fern, O. 

 Claytoniana. All three are beautiful and striking 

 plants, producing their spores in May or June, and 

 conspicuous by reason of their luxuriant growth and 

 flower-like fruit clusters. 



The Osmundas are easily cultivated, and group 

 themselves effectively in shaded corners of the 

 garden. They need plenty of water, and thrive best 

 in a mixture of swamp-muck and fine loam. 



4. CURLY GRASS 



Schizaa pusilla 

 Pine barrens of New Jersey. 



Sterile fronds. — Hardly an inch long, linear, slender, flattened, 

 curly. 



Fertile fronds. — Taller than the sterile fronds (three or four 

 inches in height), slender, with from four to six pairs of fruit-bearing 

 pinnae in September. 



Save in the herbarium I have never seen this very 

 local little plant, which is found in certain parts of 

 New Jersey. Gray assigns it to " low grounds, pine 

 barrens," while Dr. Eaton attributes it to the "drier 

 parts of sphagnous swamps among white cedars." 



In my lack of personal knowledge of Schizaa, I 

 venture to quote from that excellent little quarter- 

 ly, the Fern Bulletin, the following passage from an 



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