The Fern Lover's Companion 187 



III 



(URLY GRASS FAMILY 



SCHIZ.EACE.E 



Curly Grass. Schizaea pusilla 



Small, slender ferns with linear or thready leaves, the 

 sterile, one to two inches high and tortuons or "curled like 

 corkscrews"; fertile fronds longer, three to five inches, and 

 hearing at the top about fi^'e pairs of minute, fruited 

 ])inn;Te. Sj)orangia large, ovoid, sessile in a double row 

 along the single vein of the narrow di^'isions of the fertile 

 leaves, and i)ro'\-ided with a complete apical ring. (Schiza'a, 

 from a Greek root meaning to split, alluding to the cleft 

 leaves of foreign species.) 





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Curly Grass. Schizcea -pusilla 



