Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 547
dmire the ferns. Even the very name bringsto mind vistas of graceful, waving fronds withdelicate, lace-like foliage. But while most species may well claim our ad-miration, some are so unlike our usual concep-tion of a fern as seemingly to justify one in de-claring that they must belong to some… … THE CLIMBING-FERN. It much resembles a small hand with chubby fingers. as if to show its disapproval of the frills andfashions of its more aristocratic relatives. Some THE WALKING-FEKN (AT LOWER LEFT CORNER).It is fond of damp places in rocky woods. of the fronds are short and blunt; others are…
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