A Field Guide to Ferns and Their Related Families: Northeastern and Central North AmericaSince 1956, when the late Boughton Cobb wrote his field guide to ferns, this book, unchanged in all the years since, has become the classic on the subject. Now the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS) has completely updated the text and added 100 color photographs. The incredibly beautiful full-page line drawings by the late Laura Louise Foster have been reproduced from the original art. New subjects include a section on habitats and conservation, a glossary of botanical terms, and a chapter on gardening with ferns. The New England Wild Flower Society is the nation's oldest organization devoted to the conservation of wild plants. It recently received a number of grants to celebrate its "Year of the Fern." NEWFS books published by Houghton Mifflin are Wildflowers and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, both by William Cullina. |
Common terms and phrases
annual constrictions appressed Asplenium basal pinnae base Bog Clubmoss Botrychium central cavity Clubmoss common cone creeping cross-section dark green Dendrolycopodium dense DIAGNOSTIC ARROWS Diphasiastrum Dryopteris ECOLOGY edges Equisetum erect evergreen fern allies fertile fronds fertile pinnae fertile stem fiddleheads Firmoss fronds gametophyte gemmae genus Grape Fern Ground Cedar grow HABIT habitats hairs horizontal stems Horsetail Huperzia hybrids indusia indusium Isoëtes lateral branches leaf leathery Lip Fern lobes lower pinnae Lycopodiella Lycopodium MARGINALIA margins megaspores Minn moist Moonwort narrow Nfld Northern Ophioglossum pairs of pinnae Photo pinnae pinnules plants pointed tip Quillwort rachis RANGE RHIZOME ridges rounded scales Scouring Rush Selaginella sessile sheath slender slightly smooth soils sori species Spikemoss Spleenwort sporangia sporangium spores sporophore sporophylls spreading stalk sterile blade sterile fronds stipe strobili surface Synonym tall tapering teeth tiny toothed Tree Clubmoss triangular underside upper upright stem usually veins wide Wood Fern Woodsia