Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 973
ave ever seen. These shoots are of a dark, disagreeable olive green, do notspread prettily, and are very thick and ugly. Do brakes actthis way? for the plants seem much too large to be real fernsof a temperate climate. Inside the sprouts are tiny seeds (per-haps spores). We should all be glad to… … THE OSTRICH-FEKN BY THE RIVERSIDE. THE FERTILE FRONDS SOMEWHATRESEMBLE OSTRICH-PLUMES. Germanica). The commonname is due to an imagined like-ness of the fronds to an ostrich-feather. This fern is the tallestof Eastern American ferns, andby many regarded as the hand-somest. In the illustration at…
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