Sometimes this frond has a slight fragrance when it is bruised.
The root is covered with woolly fibres, and the frond is regularly forked.
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 frond is flat, with a distinct midrib, and a non-serrated edge.
The specific name of this Fern simply means “crested,” and has reference to the fringed border of the frond.
There was not a frond of bracken, a blade of grass, that did not bend listeningly.
The sinuses between them are rounded, and are gradually narrowed towards the apex of the frond.
If a woodlark stirred, he saw the shadow of its wing flit from frond to frond.
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The species are named from variations in the outline of the frond.
1785, from Latin frons (genitive frondis) "leafy branch, green bough, foliage." Adopted by Linnæus in a sense distinct from folium.