June 15. Matricary Grape Fern.

June 20. Royal Fern. Interrupted Fern.

June 25. Rattlesnake Fern.

June 30. Oak Fern. Spinulose Wood Fern and Varieties.

July 5. Fragile Bladder Fern. Christmas Fern.

July 10. Long Beech Fern. Crested Shield Fern. Boott's Shield Fern.

July 15. Moonwort. Virginia Chain Fern. Adder's Tongue. Crested Marginal Shield Fern.

July 20. Slender Cliff Brake. Blunt-Lobed Woodsia.

July 25. Purple Cliff Brake. Bulblet Bladder Fern.

Mountain Spleen wort.

July 30. Goldie's Shield Fern. Marginal Shield Fern.

Clinton's Wood Fern.

August 5. Wall Rue. Walking Fern. Lady Fern.

August 10. Alpine Woodsia. Smooth Woodsia. Common Polypody. Maidenhair Fern. Fragrant Shield Fern. Scott's Spleenwort. Braun's Holly Fern.

August 15. Rusty Woodsia. Silvery Spleen wort. Lance-leaved Grape Fern.

August 20. Ebony and Maidenhair Spleenworts. Hayscented Fern. New York Fern.

August 25. Broad Beech Fern.

August 30. Marsh Fern.

September 5. Bracken or Brake.

September 10. Climbing Fern. Narrow-leaved Spleenwort.

September 15. Ma.s.sachusetts Fern. Green Spleenwort. Sensitive Fern. Ternate Grape Fern.

September 30. Narrow-leaved Chain Fern.

GLOSSARY

Ac.u.mINATE. Gradually tapering to a point.

ACuLEATE. p.r.i.c.kly. Beset with p.r.i.c.kles.

ACUTE. Sharp pointed, but not tapering.

ADVENt.i.tIOUS. Irregular, incidental. Growing out of the usual or normal position.

ANaSTOMOSING. Connected by cross veins and forming a network as in the Sensitive ferns.

aNNULUS. A jointed, elastic ring surrounding the spore cases in most ferns.

ANTHERiDIA. The male organs on a prothallium.

APEX The top or pointed end of leaf or frond.

(plu. APICES).

ARCHEGNIA. The female organs on a prothallium.

AReOLA. A s.p.a.ce formed by intersecting veins; a mesh.

AURICLE. An ear-shaped lobe at the base.

ARTiCULATE. Jointed; having a joint or node.

AXIL. The angle formed by a leaf or branch with the stem.

BI (Latin, Two, twice, doubly.

_bis_, twice).

BLADE. The expanded, leafy portion of a frond.

BULBLET. A small bulb, borne on a leaf or in its axil.

CAUDATE. With a slender, tail-like appendage.

CAUDEX. A trunk or stock of a plant; especially of a tree fern.

CHAFF. Thin, dry scales of a yellowish-brown color.

CHLROPHYLL. The green coloring matter of plants.

CiLIATE. Fringed with fine hairs.

CiRCINATE. Coiled downward from the apex, as in the young fronds of a fern.

CLAVATE. Club-shaped.

COMPOUND. Divided into two or more parts.

CONFLUENT. Blended together.

CORDATE. Heart-shaped.

CRENATE. Scalloped with rounded teeth; said of margins.

CRSIER. An uncoiling frond.

CuNEATE. Wedge-shaped.

CuSPIDATE. Hard pointed, tipped with a cusp.

DECIDUOUS. Falling away when done growing--not evergreen.

DECOMPOUND. More than once compounded or divided.

DECURRENT. Running down the stem below the point of insertion, as the bases of some pinnae.

DEc.u.mBENT. Not erect; trailing, bending along the ground, but with the apex ascending.

DEFLEXED. Bent or turned abruptly downward.

DENTATE. Toothed. Having the teeth of a margin directed outward.

DICHoTOMOUS. Forking regularly in pairs.

DIMoRPHOUS. Of two forms; said of ferns whose fertile fronds are unlike the sterile.

EMaRGINATE. Notched at the apex.

ENTIRE. Without divisions, lobes, or teeth.

FALCATE. Scythe-shaped, slightly curved upward.

FERTILE. Bearing spores.

FiLIFORM. Thread-like; long, slender, and terete.

FILMY. Having a thin membrane; gauzy; said of the filmy fern fronds.

FLABELLATE. Fan-shaped; broad and rounded at the summit and narrow at the base.

FROND. A fern leaf or blade; may include both stipe and blade, or only the latter--called also lamina.

GLABROUS. Smooth; not rough or hairy.

GLAND. A small secreting organ, globular or pear-shaped; it is often stalked.

GLAUCOUS. Covered with a fine bloom, bluish-white and powdery, in appearance like a plum.

HASTATE. Like an arrowhead with the lobes spreading.

IMBRICATE. Overlapping, like shingles on a roof.

INCSED. Cut irregularly into sharp lobes.

INDuSIUM. The thin membrane covering the sori in some ferns.

INVOLUCRE. In ferns, an indusium; in filmy ferns, cup-shaped growths encircling the sporangia.

LaMINA. A blade; the leafy portion of a fern.

LACiNIATE. Slashed; cut into narrow, irregular lobes.

LANCEOLATE. Lance-shaped; broadest above the base and tapering to the apex.

LOBE. A small rounded segment of a frond.

MIDRIB. The main rib or vein of a segment, pinnule, pinna, or frond; a midvein.

MuCRONATE. Ending abruptly in a short, sharp point.

OBLONG. From two to four times longer than broad and with sides nearly parallel.

OBTUSE. Blunt or rounded at the end.

ODES. A Greek ending, meaning _like_, or _like to_, as polypodioides--like to a polypody.

oSPHERE. The egg-cell in fern reproduction--becoming the oospore when fertilized.

OVATE. Egg-shaped with the broader end downward.

PALMATE. Having lobes radiating like the fingers of a hand.

PANICLE. A loose compound cl.u.s.ter of flowers or sporangia with irregular stems.

PEDICEL. A tiny stalk, especially the stalk of the sporangia.

PELLUCID. Clear, transparent.

PERSISTENT. Remaining on the plant for a long time, as leaves through the winter.

PeTIOLE. The same as stalk or stipe.