Comptonia.—Sweet Fern.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult.
Engl.: sweet fern, ferngale, meadow fern, ricket plant, spleenwort, sweet-bush.
Bot. syn.: Comptonia aspleniifolia (L.) L'Her., Myrica aspleniifolia L., Myrica peregrina (L.) Kuntze.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: W. Barton, 1817 (Vol. 1), 1818 (Vol. II).
Classic texts: The American Eclectic Dispensatory, by John King, 1854.
Classic texts: Rafinesque 1828-1830.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: Sayre 1917.
Classic texts: Cook 1869.
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