RAY’S WOODSIA. 73 
moist atmosphere; but before winter remove the 
s and expose the fern to the weather, watering it 
, except during frost and snow. 
RAY’S WOODSIA. Woonsta Itvensts. 
Ilvensis, Brown. B. F. U1, 78. 
caudex is thick and tufted, and lasts many 
the stalk is very distinctly jointed at a distance 
ers of an inch from its junction with the 
the articulation is swollen, and very obvious 
ed eye when the frond is mature; at this 
tion takes place, the frond falling off like a 
us leaf, the basal portion of its stalk adhering to 
epara 
in pairs, and generally 
base of the frond, but becoming alter- 
‘the tip; they are sessile, oblong, obtuse, 
and in some specimens pinnatifid, 
