COMMON LADY FERN. . 119 
‘The Male Fern is found in every country of 
Europe and Northern Asia, and has been collected 
Africa. Beck gives it as a native of North 
rica, but it does not occur in either of the col- 
s I have received from that continent. In 
in it is a most abundant species, and one which 
to delight in wooded and cultivated districts : 
"beautiful appearance when grown under 
COMMON LADY FERN. Frurx-rewna. 
m Filix-femina, Linneus. B. F. 207, 213, 
218. 
of the Common Lady Fern is very 
its position erect; it sometimes rises 
have seen it more than a foot in height, 
g a considerable resemblance in habit to 
t first their vernation is convolute, but as 
