GUIDE
45. EVERGREEN WOOD FERN
Aspidium marginale
Very common, usually rather large, smooth, somewhat leathery, fronds ovate oblong, 1–2 pinnate, fruit-dots large, distinct, close to the margin. In rocky woods. P. 176.
46. FRAGRANT SHIELD FERN
Aspidium fragrans
Small, fragrant, fronds once-pinnate, with pinnatifid pinnæ, stalk and rachis chaffy, fruit-dots large. On rocks northward, especially near waterfalls. P. 178.
47. BRAUN'S HOLLY FERN
Aspidium aculeatum var. Braunii
Rather large, fronds oblong-lanceolate, twice-pinnate, pinnules sharply toothed, covered with long, soft hairs, fruit-dots small. In deep, rocky woods. P. 182.
48. COMMON POLYPODY
Polypodium vulgare
Usually small, fronds somewhat leathery, narrowly oblong, fruit-dots large, round, uncovered, half-way between midvein and margin. On rocks. P. 184.
HAY-SCENTED FERN
Dicksonia pilosiuscula
[See No. 23]
49. LONG BEECH FERN
Phegopteris polypodioides
Medium-sized, fronds downy, triangular, longer than broad, once-pinnate, pinnæ pinnatifid; lowest pair deflexed and standing forward. In moist woods and on the banks of streams. P. 187.
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