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The Ferx Lover's Compaxiox 



The curly grass is so minute that it is difEcult to dis- 

 tinguish it when growing amid its companion plants, the 

 grasses, mosses, sundews, club mosses, etc. The sterile 

 leaves are evergreen. Pine barrens of New Jersey, Grand 

 Lake, Xova Scotia, and in New Brunswick. Several new 

 stations for the curly grass have recently been discovered 

 in the southwest counties of Nova Scotia by the Gray 

 Herbarium expedition, mostly in bogs and hollows of 

 sandy peat or sphagnum. 



Sporangia of Curly Grass 



Climbixg Feex. Hartford Ferx 

 Lygodium pahnatum 



"And where upon the meadow's breast 

 The shadow of the thicket lies." 



Bhyaxt. 



Fronds slender, climbing or twining, three to five feet 

 long. The lower pinnae (frondlets) sterile, roundish, five to 

 scA'en lobed, distant in pairs with simple veins; the upper 

 fertile, contracted, several times forked, forming a terminal 

 panicle; the ultimate segments crowded, and bearing the 



