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THE SEED PLANTS, FERNS AND FERN ALLIES 

 OF THE AUSTIN REGION 



PTERIDOPHYTES 



OPHIOGLOSSALES 



OPHIOGLOSSACEAE Adder's-tongue Family 



Ophioglossam Engelmanni Prantle. Adder's Tongue. 

 Rich soil in woods near dam. 

 Southeastern states. 



FILICALES 



SCHIZAEACEAE Curley-grass Family 



Anemia mexicana KL. (Ornithopteris mexicana Underw.). 



Rich soil in moist shaded slopes in "Devil's Hollow" a tributary 

 canyon of the Colorado about 10 miles above Austin. A large fern 

 with glossy leathery leaves of which the lowest pair of pinnae are 

 elongated and spore-bearing. 



Texas and Mexico. 



POLYPODIACEAE 



Adiantum Capillus-veneris L. Maidenhair fern. 



Our most common fern. Very abundant on moist rock bluffs, 

 over-hanging the river and in ravines. 



Warm temperate regions. 



Asplenium 7'esiliens Kuntze. Spleen wort. 



On rock bluffs in ravines. A small fern with slender pinnate 

 leaves. 



Southeastern states, Mexico and Jamaica. 



Cheilanthes alabamensis Kuntze. Lip-fern. 



On rock bluffs in ravines. The leaves are twice pinnate and some 

 of the segments lobed. 



Southeastern states to Mexico. 



Dryopteris patens Kuntze. Shield-fern. 



A large, showy fern, with leaves erect or ascending, three or four 

 feet long. 



Bull Creek region. 



Southeastern states, California and Tropical America. 



