Specimen of the marginal wood fern

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Specimen of the marginal wood fern

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Authoritative “holotype” specimen of the marginal wood fern (Dryopteris marginalis)

Collected in Chebacco Woods, Swampscott, Massachusetts, by John Robinson, 1865, 16 × 11 1/2 in. (40.6 × 29.2 cm). Gift of John Robinson, mid-19th century (NHH1).