THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



I. Maichn-hair Spleen wort, 2. Wall Rue. 3. Scaly Spleen wort, 4. Hart's Tongue. 

 5. Northern Hard Fern. 6. Moonwort. 7. Adder's Tongue. 8. Royal Fern. 



barrels, and rising up to the deliciously perfumed stem being the nearest to it. In tropical countries 

 rose or lily, or the magnificent forest tree, the Fern and in New Zealand, Tree Ferns with an erect 

 comes about midway in the ascending scale, : woody stem rising 45 or 50 feet high are found, 

 while of the two primary divisions of plants with a magnificent crown of feathery fronds. 

 Phanerogamia or flowering plants, and Crypto- The true roots of Ferns are always fibrous. 

 gamia or fiowerless plants, Ferns stand at the When they produce a stem it is formed of woody 

 head of the latter division, and are called Vascular \ plates which never increase in size or number, but 

 Cryptogams. In this country they never produce ! may be regarded as the woody bases of the fronds, 

 erect stems, the rhizome or creeping underground The stem never increases in diameter like our 



