How to know the ferns
The cheerful community of the polypody.
A GUIDE TO THE NAMES, HAUNTS, AND HABITS OF OUR COMMON FERNS
By Frances Theodora Parsons Author of How to Know the Wild Flowers, According to Season, etc.
Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1915
Copyright, 1899, by Charles Scribner's Sons
TO J. R. P.
If it were required to know the position of the fruit-dots or the character of the indusium, nothing could be easier than to ascertain it; but if it is required that you be affected by ferns, that they amount to anything, signify anything to you, that they be another sacred scripture and revelation to you, helping to redeem your life, this end is not so easily accomplished.
—Thoreau
Since the publication, six years ago, of How to Know the Wild Flowers, I have received such convincing testimony of the eagerness of nature-lovers of all ages and conditions to familiarize themselves with the inhabitants of our woods and fields, and so many assurances of the joy which such a familiarity affords, that I have prepared this companion volume on How to Know the Ferns. It has been my experience that the world of delight which opens before us when we are admitted into some sort of intimacy with our companions other than human is enlarged with each new society into which we win our way.
Frances Theodora Parsons
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How to Know the Ferns
How to Know the Ferns
WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS
OSMUNDA (Flowering Ferns)
ONOCLEA
WOODSIA
CYSTOPTERIS (Bladder Ferns)
ASPIDIUM (Shield Ferns)
PHEGOPTERIS (Beech Ferns)
WOODWARDIA (Chain Ferns)
ASPLENIUM (Spleenworts)
PELLÆA (Cliff Brakes)
BOTRYCHIUM (Moonworts)
1. SENSITIVE FERN
2. OSTRICH FERN
3. CINNAMON FERN
4. CURLY GRASS
6. INTERRUPTED FERN
8. ADDER'S TONGUE
10. TERNATE GRAPE FERN
11. LITTLE GRAPE FERN
12. MOONWORT
13. MATRICARY GRAPE FERN
14. LANCE-LEAVED GRAPE FERN
15. SLENDER CLIFF BRAKE
16. PURPLE CLIFF BRAKE
18. NARROW-LEAVED SPLEENWORT
19. NET-VEINED CHAIN FERN
21. MAIDENHAIR
22. HAIRY LIP FERN
24. LADY FERN
25. SILVERY SPLEENWORT
27. MOUNTAIN SPLEENWORT
28. EBONY SPLEENWORT
29. MAIDENHAIR SPLEENWORT
30. GREEN SPLEENWORT
31. SCOTT'S SPLEENWORT
32. PINNATIFID SPLEENWORT
33. BRADLEY'S SPLEENWORT
35. HART'S TONGUE
36. VIRGINIA CHAIN FERN
37. NEW YORK FERN
38. MARSH FERN
39. MASSACHUSETTS FERN
40. SPINULOSE WOOD FERN
41. BOOTT'S SHIELD FERN
42. CRESTED SHIELD FERN
43. CLINTON'S WOOD FERN
44. GOLDIE'S FERN
46. FRAGRANT SHIELD FERN
47. BRAUN'S HOLLY FERN
49. LONG BEECH FERN
51. OAK FERN
52. BULBLET BLADDER FERN
54. RUSTY WOODSIA
55. BLUNT-LOBED WOODSIA
57. SMOOTH WOODSIA
1. SENSITIVE FERN
2. OSTRICH FERN
3. CINNAMON FERN
4. CURLY GRASS
5. ROYAL FERN. FLOWERING FERN
6. INTERRUPTED FERN
7. CLIMBING FERN. CREEPING FERN. HARTFORD FERN
8. ADDER'S TONGUE
9. RATTLESNAKE FERN. VIRGINIA GRAPE FERN
10. TERNATE GRAPE FERN
11. LITTLE GRAPE FERN
12. MOONWORT
13. MATRICARY GRAPE FERN
14. LANCE-LEAVED GRAPE FERN
15. SLENDER CLIFF BRAKE
16. PURPLE CLIFF BRAKE
17. CHRISTMAS FERN
18. NARROW-LEAVED SPLEENWORT
19. NET-VEINED CHAIN FERN
20. BRAKE. BRACKEN. EAGLE FERN
21. MAIDENHAIR
22. HAIRY LIP FERN
23. HAY-SCENTED FERN
24. LADY FERN
25. SILVERY SPLEENWORT
26. RUE SPLEENWORT. WALL RUE
27. MOUNTAIN SPLEENWORT
28. EBONY SPLEENWORT
29. MAIDENHAIR SPLEENWORT
30. GREEN SPLEENWORT
31. SCOTT'S SPLEENWORT
32. PINNATIFID SPLEENWORT
33. BRADLEY'S SPLEENWORT
34. WALKING FERN. WALKING LEAF
35. HART'S TONGUE
36. VIRGINIA CHAIN FERN
37. NEW YORK FERN
38. MARSH FERN
39. MASSACHUSETTS FERN
40. SPINULOSE WOOD FERN
41. BOOTT'S SHIELD FERN
42. CRESTED SHIELD FERN
43. CLINTON'S WOOD FERN
44. GOLDIE'S FERN
45. EVERGREEN WOOD FERN. MARGINAL SHIELD FERN
46. FRAGRANT SHIELD FERN
47. BRAUN'S HOLLY FERN
48. COMMON POLYPODY. SNAKE FERN
49. LONG BEECH FERN
50. BROAD BEECH FERN. HEXAGON BEECH FERN
51. OAK FERN
52. BULBLET BLADDER FERN
53. FRAGILE BLADDER FERN. COMMON BLADDER FERN
54. RUSTY WOODSIA
55. BLUNT-LOBED WOODSIA
56. NORTHERN WOODSIA. ALPINE WOODSIA
57. SMOOTH WOODSIA
