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Definition of Schizaea pusilla

1. Noun. Rare small fern of northeastern North America having numerous slender spiraling fronds and forming dense tufts.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizaea Pusilla

Literary usage of Schizaea pusilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Schizaea pusilla Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 657. 1814. Rootstock minute, horizontally creeping, the leaves tufted. Sterile leaves linear, very slender, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"On the edge of a cedar swamp near Calico—a half-day's travel further west—we again found Schizaea pusilla at home, but sparingly, and growing iu the same ..."

3. The Study of the Biology of Ferns by the Collodion Method: For Advanced and by George Francis Atkinson (1894)
"Sporangium of Schizaea pusilla. Magnified 6 times more than the scale; ... Section of annulus of Schizaea pusilla. The annulus being in the form of a ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"313), which in the fertile leaf develops further, but in the one-nerved sterile leaves of Schizaea pusilla the leaf is ' potentially' also quite simple. ..."

5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"This is described as being similar to that common for most Ferns in the case of Schizaea pusilla.1 It may be noted, however, that the filamentous prothallus ..."

6. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1905)
"... curly grass (Schizaea pusilla). For a long time it was supposed to grow in New Jersey only. It has since been found in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland, ..."

7. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"... curly grass (Schizaea pusilla). For a long time it was supposed to grow in New Jersey only. It has since been found in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland, ..."

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