The Priests came flocking in, like rooks, With all their crosiers and their crooks, And so at last the matter ended.

The contributions which were derived from the sale of benefices, from investitures, from the transfer of sees, from the bestowal of rings and crosiers (badges of episcopal authority), from the confirmation of elections, and other taxes, irritated sovereigns, and called out the severest denunciation of statesmen.

Trichomanes Boschianum Fruiting Pinnules of Filmy Fern Crosiers Noted Fern Authors Spray of the Bulblet Bladder Fern

VERNATION All true ferns come out of the ground head foremost, coiled up like a watch-spring, and are designated as "fiddle-heads," or crosiers.

" Referring, perhaps, to the fair colors of the unfolding crosiers revealing stipes of a clear wine color in striking contrast with the delicate green of the foliage.

[Illustration: Lady Fern Crosiers]

[Illustration: Fiddleheads or Crosiers of Christmas Fern] NOTED FERN AUTHORS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

The Virgin is a pretty thing, worth a poem, but it would be quite too silly to talk about belief or unbelief; Christ in wood or plaster we have heard too much of, but Christ in painted glass amid crosiers and Latin terminations, is an amusing subject for poetry.

See the mitres and crosiers, the blood-stained heavenly breasts, the loin-linen hanging over orbs of light....

The Virgin is a pretty thing, worth a poem, but it would be quite too silly to talk about belief or unbelief; Christ in wood or plaster we have heard too much of, but Christ in painted glass amid crosiers and Latin terminations, is an amusing subject for poetry.

Justina, seeing her opportunity, went forward just as Brandon drew the rest of the party aside to look at some rather rare ferns, whose curled-up fronds, like little crosiers, were showing on the sandy bank.