FERN FAMILY 35 



The fruit-dots are round and large, nearly 

 covering the under surfaces of the pinnae at 

 maturity in July. The thin indusia are imbri- 

 cated and persistent, with margin ragged and 

 slightly glandular, the sinus narrow. 



GOLDIE'S FERN. 



Aspidium Gohlianum (^D?yopUris Goldieana). 



Frond broadly ovate, pinnate, the pinnje from 

 six to nine inches long, pinnately parted into 

 about twenty pairs of slightly scythe-shaped seg- 

 ments, which are serrate with ajDpressed teeth. 



The pinna; are broadest in the middle, one 

 distinguishing difference between this and Clin- 

 ton's Wood Fern. The fronds are also very 

 broad, and rather suddenly narrowed at the tip, 

 another distinction from Clinton's Wood Fern. 



They grow in a circle from the rootstock and 

 are dark blue-green in color. The stipe is long, 

 chaffy at the base. 



This is the tallest of our wood ferns, — from 

 two to four feet high, — and on account of the 

 demand by florists it is fast becoming rare here 

 in New England. It never has been common, 

 not having been fovmd in many localities favor- 

 able to its growth. 



Its preferred habitat is rich, moist woods. 

 Gray calls it a "stately fern," and it certainly is 

 well termed. The fertile frond is narrower than 



