osmundas

The spores of all the _osmundas_ are green, and need to germinate quickly or they lose their vitality.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

The _osmundas_ are tall swamp ferns growing in large crowns from strong, thickened rootstocks; the fruiting portion of the fertile frond much contracted and quite unlike the sterile.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

In moist copses the ferns and osmundas begin to uncurl in April, opening their soft coils of spongy verdure, coated with woolly down, from which the humming-bird steals the lining of her nest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

Against this background far down the little quaint, white-painted Magundy Church shines like a star; around the church is a churchyard (if you knew how often settlers bury their people in their own gardens, etc., as if they were their old horses or pet dogs, you would know the value of the sight!) full of white stones and with clumps of the apple-green osmundas on the graves.

Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896

With autumn came a glorious abundance and variety of asters, those beautiful plant stars, together with goldenrods, sunflowers, daisies, and liatris of different species, while around the shady margin of the meadow many ferns in beds and vaselike groups spread their beautiful fronds, especially the osmundas (_O. claytoniana, regalis_, and _cinnamomea_) and the sensitive and ostrich ferns.

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir 1876

Hart's-tongue, and lady-fern, and the whole family of osmundas.

Vixen, Volume III. 1875