| By mid June it will be over and the stumpy spears will be left to grow into their fernlike fonds. |
| The Pteridopsida were present, bearing spores on their leaves as they do today, but there were also fernlike seed-bearing ferns, the pteridosperms. |
| The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes. |
| The dark green fernlike seedlings pop up against cinder block walls, in planters, against house and building foundations and in cracks in the sidewalks. |
| Then, usually, within 15 minutes, it lifts its fernlike branches and re-opens its leaves. |
| But if there are big holes in the membrane, the lithium atoms can build themselves into fernlike structures, called dendrites, which eventually poke through the membrane. |
