Fresh beauty appeared at every step, delicate rock-ferns, and groups of the fairest flowers.

" Kate's exclamation was due to a sudden sinking in the mossy causeway until she was almost buried in the tall ferns.

So day after day went by: and no one knew of, or found the sweet wild fern, or the beautiful valley it grew in.

THE FERN SONG Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern, And spread out your palms again, And say, "Tho' the Sun Hath my vesture spun, He hath labored, alas, in vain, But for the shade That the Cloud hath made, And the gift of the Dew and the Rain.

But did the rambler ever find the sensitive fern, which resented the intrusive hand with all Mimosa's coyness?

Rare ferns fringed the edges of the little fountain, where diminutive reptiles whisked in and out of watery homes, or sat motionless on the brink, with fixed, glassy eyes.

There is no doubt what species is meant when one speaks of the Christmas fern, the ostrich fern, the long beech fern, the interrupted fern, etc.

In the thick shade grow giant ferns of tropic luxuriance.

Just outside the latter, a viaduct takes the road across a deep ravine full of magnificent ferns, which remind the traveller of the heightmore than 600 feetabove the sea level to which he has attained.

Heather, bilberry, and cloudberry cover the ground; there are tiny ferns, and the seven-pointed star flowers of the winter-green.

In this manual our native ferns are grouped scientifically under five distinct families.

The fragrant fern grows on high cliffs among the mountains of northern New England.

I was carried to a teepee and shown a couch of dry fern.

She followed the partially broken trails of the wood-cutters far into the depths of the forests, and found there on sunny days, in sheltered spots, where the feet of the men and horses and the runners of the heavy sledges had worn away the snow, green mosses and glossy ferns and shining clumps of the hepatica.

By no other trees are they rendered so extensively and impressively visible, not even by the lordly tropic palms or tree-ferns responsive to the gentlest breeze.

Along the banks of the streams vegetation gets very luxurious, and among the thick undergrowth are found some lovely ferns, broad-leaved plants, and flowers of every hue, all alike nearly scentless.

The fragile bladder fern, as it is often called, and which the name frágilis suggests, is the earliest to appear in the spring, and the first to disappear, as by the end of July it has discharged its spores and withered away.

This handsome fern is rather common in northern New England.

True, I have but four kindsScotch fir, holly, furze, and the heath; and by way of relief to them, only brows of brown fern, sheets of yellow bog-grass, and here and there a leafless birch, whose purple tresses are even more lovely to my eye than those fragrant green ones which she puts on in spring.

And now to change the subject again; if you have any faded ferns, vines, leaves on hand, you can paint and make them beautiful again.

Since the useless little fern was lost.

The root of the male fern was in years gone by used in love-philtres, and hence the following allusion: "'Twas the maiden's matchless beauty That drew my heart a-nigh; Not the fern-root potion, But the glance of her blue eye.

A frond is bipinnate (Latin, bis, twice) when the lobes of the pinnæ extend to the midvein as in the royal fern (Fig. 2).

The matricary fern differs from the preceding in ripening its spores about a month earlier, in having its sterile frond stalked, besides being a taller and fleshier plant.

O'er pathless rocks, Through beds of matted fern, and tangled thickets, 15 Forcing my way, I came to one dear nook Unvisited, where not a broken bough Drooped with its withered leaves, ungracious sign Of devastation; but the hazels rose Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung, 20 A virgin scene!A little while I stood, Breathing with such suppression of the heart