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Frasile Bhidder Fern. Fruited Portion 



if Nature were renewing her yonlh. In outline the fragile 

 bladder fern suggests the lilunt -lolled AVondsia, hut in the 

 latter the pinna' and pinnides are usually broader and 

 blunter, and its indusium splits into jagged lobes. Rather 

 comm! n in damp, shady places where rocks abound. In 

 one form or another, found nearly throughout the world 

 though only on mountains in the tropics. 



