Its narrowly oblong, dull-green fronds, more or less covered with red-brown hairs, which give it a somewhat rusty appearance, spring from the clefts and ledges of rocks.
PLATE XIII
HAIRY LIP FERN
a A fruiting pinnule
23. HAY-SCENTED FERN
Dicksonia pilosiuscula (D. punctilobula)
Two to three feet high; hill-sides, meadows, and thickets from Canada to Tennessee.
Fronds.—Ovate-lance-shaped, long-tapering, pale-green, thin and very delicate in texture, slightly glandular and hairy, usually thrice-pinnatifid; pinnæ lance-shaped, pointed, repeating in miniature outline of frond; pinnules cut again into short and obtuse lobes or segments; fruit-dots each on an elevated globular receptacle on a recurved toothlet; indusium cup-shaped, open at the top.