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WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS
present), and such rare Spleenworts as the Pinnatifid, Scott's and Bradley's.
In September the fruit-clusters of the little Curly Grass ripen in the low pine barrens of New Jersey. Over moist thickets, in rarely favored retreats from Massachusetts southward, clamber the slender strands of the Climbing Fern. Thoreau's diary of September 26th evidently refers to this plant: "The tree-fern is in
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