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The Fern Lover’s Companion

by George Henry Tilton

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II — Those Which Have the Fruiting Portion on the Back or Margin of Fronds

A. Indusium Wanting

1. Fruit-dots large, roundish; fronds evergreen. Rock species.

Polypody. Polypodium.

2. Fruit-dots small, roundish; fronds triangular.

Beech Ferns. Phegopteris.

3. Fruit in lines on the margin of the pinnules; under surface of the fronds covered with whitish powder.

Cloak Ferns. Notholæna.

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