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ASP IDIUM JU0LANDIFOLIUM, Kunze.
P H E G O P T E R I S P O LYP O DI OID E S , Fée.
F E R N S OF NO R TH AM E R IC A . 217
P l a t e L X X V .— F ig . 1 - 4 .
P H E G O P T E R I S P O L Y P O D IO ID E S , F e e .
Common Beech-Fern.
P h e g o p t e r i s p o l y p o d i o i d e s :— Root-.stock creeping, slender,
elongated, at first softly paleaceous; stalks scattered,
slender, stramineous, two to twelve inches high; fronds triangular,
three to eight inches long, about two-thirds as broad at
the base, thinly herbaceous, slightly hairy on both surfaces and
scantily paleaceous on the midribs, beneath twice pinnatifid ;
pinnæ sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid half or
two-thirds of the way to the midrib into numerous closely
placed oblong obtuse entire or obscurely crenulate segments,
lower pinnæ separate and turned obliquely downwards and
forwards; basal segments of the rest adnate to the main
rachis, and forming a series of polygonal and usually narrowly
connected wings along its sides; sori rather small,
rounded, placed near the tips of the veinlets mostly near the
margin of the segments ; sporangia sparingly pilose.
Phegopteris polypodioides, Fée, Gen. F i t , p. 24 3 .— E aton, 111 Gray’s
Manual, ed. v., p. 663.— M i l d e , Fil. Eur. et Atlant., p. 100.—
WiLi.i.-iMSON, Ferns o f Kentucky, p. 8 1 , t. x x v i i ; Fern-Etchings,
t. x x v ii i.
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