BEECH FERN. 
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BEECH FERN, [young fi'onds of the natural size). 
Polypodium Phegopteris^ Linneus. 
The Beech Fern is one of our most beautiful species, and 
seems particularly fond of wild and mountainous countries, wet 
woods and the vicinity of waterfalls. I have found its rhizoma 
in such situations, either abundantly intermingled with mosses, 
on the face of some constantly moistened rock, or creeping 
