The polypody is a gregarious plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

In appearance the gray polypody is much like the common species, as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

Helleboratus major and minor in Quercetan, and Syrupus Genistae for hypochondriacal melancholy in the same author, compound syrup of succory, of fumitory, polypody, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Some of the boughs, like the trunks, are immensely thick for the height of the trees, and they are covered with very deep cushions of bright green moss and hangings of polypody, and whortleberries grow upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

He plucked a few of the ferns growing in the spray and discoursed on them, comparing them with the common European polypody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poison Island] Reference

Here at Owl's Head, for instance, might be seen in one place a rock thickly matted with the common polypody; in another a patch of the maiden-hair; in still another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

"Take the stinking oil drawn out of polypody of the oak by a retort, mixed with turpentine and hive-honey, and anoint your bait therewith, and it will doubtless draw the fish to it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation] Reference

Near the top of the cliff, where the red cedars gave some shade, little communities of bulb-bearing ferns and of polypody displayed their exquisite fronds, as welcome in a world of beauty as smiles on a mother's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference

There is also polypody, spleenwort, and about twenty other different sort of ferns, entirely peculiar to the place, with several sorts of mosses, either rare, or produced only here; besides a great number of other plants, whose uses are not yet known, and subjects fit only for botanical books.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference

But though the blossoms are so common, from some reason or other the fruit seldom ripens freely, unless along some of the more remote and secluded woodpaths, where the bright red berries lurk on every sunny bank, between the trunks of the old beech and oak trees, and are overhung by the beautiful bunches of polypody and foxglove, and other free-growing wild-plants which spring in such solitudes, providing the flocks of varied song-birds which frequent such delightful glades with many a juicy meal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852] Reference

The road ran through a cutting, sunless, cooled by many small springs of water trickling down the rock-face, green with draperies of the hart's-tongue and common polypody ferns; and emerged again into warmth upon a curve of the hillside facing southward down the coombe, and almost close under the second span of the viaduct, where the tall trestles plunged down among the tree-tops like gigantic stilts, and the railway left earth and spun itself across the chasm like a line of gossamer, its criss-crossed timbers so delicately pencilled against the blue that the whole structure seemed to swing there in the morning breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merry-Garden and Other Stories] Reference

Polypodium Dryopteris (brittle polypody).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

It is sometimes called "six-angled polypody.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference

More gentle; as senna, epithyme, polypody, mirobalanes, fumitory, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference