The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 140
THE ADDEK S-TONGUE FERN. complex in outline. The sterile leaf or frond isoften deeply cut and divided, and the spore-bear-ing portion is branching. The moonwort is moreof a British subject than a Yankee, since it isfound in but few places south of the Canadianprovinces. In the days of superstition… … *J« I THE CURLY GRASS-FERN. So utterly devoid of the usual fern-like characters asto be hardly worthy ot the name. things. The adders-tongue, grape-ferns, andmoonwort are not true ferns, but are so closelyallied as to be commonly regarded as such. Theygrow in pastures and woodlands, some…
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