BEAUTIFUL FERNS.
FROM
ORIGINAL WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS AFTER NATURE,
By C. E. FAXON and J. H. EMERTON.
Descriptive Text by Daniel Cady Eaton,
PROFESSOR OF BOTANY IN YALE COLLEGE.
BOSTON:
ESTES AND LAURIAT.
1886.
Copyright, 1885,
By H. B. Nims and Company.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
- American Maiden-Hair
- Ostrich-Fern
- Alpine Beech-Fern
Fragrant Wood-Fern - Goldie’s Wood-Fern
- Webby Lip-Fern
Eaton’s Lip-Fern - Male Fern
- Trifoliate Cliff-Brake
Clayton’s Cliff-Brake
Slender Cliff-Brake - Evergreen Wood-Fern
- Walking-Leaf
Pinnatifid Spleenwort - Sensitive Fern
AMERICAN MAIDEN-HAIR.
ADIANTUM PEDATUM, Linnæus.
American Maiden-hair.
Adiantum pedatum:—Root-stock creeping, scaly, and copiouslyrooting; stalks scattered, a foot or more high, dark-brownand polished, forked at the top; fronds six to fifteen inches broad,membranaceous, smooth, spreading nearly horizontally, composedof several (six to fourteen) slender divisions radiating from theouter side of the recurved branches of the stalk, and bearingnumerous oblong or triangular-oblong short-stalked pinnules havingthe lower margin entire and often slightly concave, the baseparallel with the polished hairlike rachis, the upper margin lobedor cleft and bearing a few oblong-lunate or transversely linearreflexed involucres; sporangia on the inner surface of the involucres(as in all Adianta), borne on the extended apices of the freeforking veinlets, which proceed from a principal vein closelyparallel to the lower margin of the pinnule.
Adiantum pedatum, Linnæus, Sp. Pl., p. 1557.—Thunberg, Flora Japonica,p. 339.—Swartz, Syn. Fil., p. 121.—Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew.,p. 107, t. 115.—Willdenow, Sp. Pl., v., p. 438.—Michaux, Fl. Bor.Am., ii., p. 263.—Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., p. 670.—Torrey, Fl.of N. Y., ii., p. 487.—Gray, Manual.—Ruprecht, Dist