100 The Fern Lover's Companion 





Silvery Spleenwort- Atliijrium ucrosliclioides 



fern tribe, which it somewhat resembles. The regular 

 rows of nearly straight, clear-cut sori of the fertile fronds 

 are very attractive, and the lower ones, as well as those at 

 the slender tips of the pinna?, are frecjuently double. 



Rich woods and moist, shady banks. New England to 

 Kentucky and westward. Generally distributed but 

 hardly common. 



(4) Narrow-lea -^'ED Spleenwort 

 Athyrium ANGUSTiFOLirM. Asple/iium cm gust if oil inn 



Fronds one to four feet tall, pinnate. Pinno" numerous, 

 thin, short-stalked, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, tho.se of 

 the fertile fronds narrower. F'ruit-dots linear. Indusium 

 slightly con^'ex. 



