Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 90
one ina few minutes.—Kako Morita. COTTON AND FIDDLE HEADS As real names, cotton and fiddle heads have notenough in common to bring them together in onetitle; but as fanciful names for the two earlieststages of the springtime ferns, the two areclosely associated. The cotton fern soonmerges into the… … THE COTTON-HEAD FORM. seems as if little balls or wads of cotton hadthere been scattered broadcast. These balls con-ceal the ends of the young fern fronds, the bot-anist using the term circinate to describe thisform of rolling or unrolling. As soon as thefern has grown an inch or two in height,…
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