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Sterile portion more or less divided; fruit in racemes or panicles, rarely in spikes.
Grape Ferns. Moonwort. _Botrychium_.
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THOSE WHICH HAVE THE FRUITING PORTION ON THE BACK OR MARGIN OF FRONDS
A. INDUSIUM WANTING
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1. Fruit-dots large, roundish; fronds evergreen. Rock species.
Polypody. _Polypodium_.
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2. Fruit-dots small, roundish; fronds triangular.
Beech Ferns. _Phegopteris_.
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3. Fruit in lines on the margin of the pinnules; under surface of the fronds covered with whitish powder.
Cloak Ferns. _Notholaena_.
B. INDUSIUM PRESENT
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1. Sori on the edge of a pinnule terminating a vein; sporangia at the base of a long, bristle-like receptacle surrounded by a cup-shaped indusium.
Filmy Fern. _Trichomanes_.
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2. Indusium formed by the reflexed margin of the pinnules.
(1) Sporangia on a continuous line; fronds large, ternate; indusium narrow.
Bracken. Brake. _Pteris_.
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(2) Sporangia in oblong sori under a reflexed tooth of a pinnule; indusium broad; rachis dark and s.h.i.+ning. Maidenhair. _Adiantum_.
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(3) Sori in roundish or elongated ma.s.ses.
Indusium broad, nearly continuous, fronds mostly smooth, somewhat leathery, pinnate. Rock species. Cliff brakes. _Pellaea_.
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Indusium narrow, seldom continuous, formed by the margin of separate lobes or of the whole pinnules; often inconspicuous, fronds usually hairy. Lip Ferns. _Cheilanthes_.
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Indusium of the reflexed edges, at first reaching to the midrib, or nearly so; later opening out nearly flat; fruiting pinnules pod-like; sterile fronds broad. Rock brakes. _Cryptogramma_.
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3. Indusium never formed of the margin of the frond. Sori various.
(1) Fruit-dots oblong, parallel with the midrib, somewhat sunken in the tissues of the frond. Water-loving species. Chain Ferns. _Woodwardia_.
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(2) Fruit-dots and indusium roundish.
Indusium s.h.i.+eld-shaped, fixed by the center. Evergreen glossy ferns in rocky woods. s.h.i.+eld Ferns. _Polystichum_.
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Indusium cordate, fixed by the sinus. Wood Ferns. _Aspidium_.
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Indusium hood-shaped, fixed centrally behind the sorus and arching over it, soon withering, often illusive. Fronds two to three pinnate, very graceful.
Moisture-loving species. Bladder Ferns. _Cystopteris_.
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Indusium star-shaped, of a few irregular segments fixed beneath the sorus, often obscure. Mostly small, rock-loving plants, usually rather chaffy, at least at the base, and growing in tufts. _Woodsia_.
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Indusium cup-shaped, fixed beneath the sorus, supported by the tooth of a leaf; sporangia borne in an elevated, globular receptacle open at the top.
Fronds finely cut. Hayscented Fern. _Dennstaedtia_.
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(3) Fruit-dots and indusium linear. (But see _Athyrium_.)
Very long, nearly at right angles to the midrib, double; blade thick oblong-lanceolate, entire; heart-shaped at the base. Hart's Tongue.
