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L ygodium palmatum : — Root-stock very slender, widely
creeping; fronds two to five feet high, smooth; the stalks twining
or climbing, greenish, drying brownish straw-color; the branches
scattered, forking near the base, and bearing in pairs on slender
petioles cordate-reniform five-to-seven-lobed frondlets or pinnse,
one to two or even three inches broad; the upper portion of the
fruiting-fronds paniculately decompound; the pinnules mostly
three-lobed, the lobes with from six to ten alternate imbricating
indusia, a single oval or acorn-shaped sporangium under each.
Lygodium palmatum, S w a r t z , Syn. Fil., p. 1 5 4 .—- S c i ik u h r , Fil., p. 1 4 1 ,
t. 14 0 . — B ig e lo w , Florida Boston, ed. iii., p. 4 1 5 . — G r a y ,
Manual, ed. i., p. 6 3 4 , et ed. seq. omn. — H o o k e r , Filices
Exotica;, t. 2 4 .— H o o k e r & B a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 4 3 6 .
Gisopteris palmata, B e r n h a r d t , in Schraders Journal, 1 8 0 1 , i., p. 12 9 .
Hydroglossum palmatum, Ni'L.i.mMO'R, in Act. Acad. Erford, 18 0 2 , p. 2 5 ,
t. I , f. 2 ; Sp., pi. V., p. 84 . — P u r sh , Flora Amer. Sept. ii., p. 6 56 .
Cteisium paniculatum, M ic h a u x , Flora Bor. Am., ii., p. 2 7 5 .
Ramondia palmata, M i r b e l , “ B u ll . S o c ., P h il., an . xi., p. 1 7 9 . ”
H a d. — In low, moist thickets, and damp, open woods ; from Massa-
chusetts to Virginia, Eastern Tennessee, and even Flo rida; not known far
west o f the Alleghanies. The fruit ripens in September.