The Fern Lover's CmiPANiON 



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Wet ground. Sensitive Fern. 



. Fruit in berrj'-like, 

 greenish struc- 

 tures in a twice 

 pinnate spike, 

 which comes up 

 mucli later than 

 the broad a n d 

 coarse pinna tifid 

 sterile fronds. 



Onoclea. 



Fruit in pod-like or necklace-like 

 pinn;e; fertile frond pinnate; sterile 

 frond tall, pinnatifid; fruit late. 



Ostrich Fern. Onoclea stndliiop- 

 ieris. 



B. FKUITINfi 



Fronds Partly 

 Sterile 



1. Fruiting portion in the middle of 

 the frond; two to four pairs of 

 fertile pinna?. 

 Interrupted Fern. Osmunda Clay- 

 toniana. 



