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 Schizzacez. 
The Curly Grass. 
To see the curly grass (Schiz@a pusilla) 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 
