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The Feex Lover's Companion 



New-foundland to [Minnesota, south to North Carohna and 

 Missouri. Although fond of moisture it is easily culti- 

 vated and its graceful outlines make it worthy of a promi- 

 nent place in the fern garden. Yar. dubia has the pinnules 

 of the sterile frond widely sei)arated. and the ui)iier- 

 middle ones much elongated. Southern ^'erniont. 



(3) Cinnamon Fern. Brakes 

 Osmunda cinnamomea 



Fronds one to six feet long, pinnate. Pinn;i? lanceo- 

 late, pinnatifid with oblong, olituse divisions. Fertile 

 pinna? on separate fronds, which are contracted and cov- 

 ered with brown sporangia. 



finnamon Fern Osmunda nnnamomia 



