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THE FERN PARADISE. 
2 . 
THE ALPINE WOODSIA. 
Woodsia aljpina. 
Plate 5, Fig. 2. 
LIINA is a sort of diminutive likeness of 
Ilvensis. Narrow, blunt-pointed fronds, 
shorter and narrower than those of 
Ilvensis. From a tufted crown these little fronds 
are thrown up, jointed just a little more than 
half an inch from the ground. The leaflets along 
the rachis are somewhat shorter and blunter than 
those of Ilvensis , are not so much notched, and 
are placed on each side in alternation. But they 
get smaller towards the top of the frond, by a 
somewhat slow process of gradation, finally blend¬ 
ing, however, at its extreme point. The scales 
and shinins; hairs at the backs of the leaflets are 
not quite so thickly scattered as in the case of 
the Oblong Woodsia. But the spore clusters are 
often crowded. 
Both the Oblong and the Alpine Woodsia grow 
