The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 139
severely plain,as if to show its disapproval of the frills andfashions of its more aristocratic relatives. Someof the fronds are short and blunt; others are pro-longed into a long, slender tip, which bends overto the ground, and at this point, if conditions arefavorable, a tiny plant begins to… … THE CLIMBING-FERN. It much resembles a small hand with chubby fingers. walks, though its steps are short and not oftentaken. It grows in rocky woods, chiefly in lime-stone regions, forming dense mats. In the climbing-fern we have another distinctphase of fern life. This fern has long,…
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