What is the meaning of sweet fern?

Mat-forming lithophytic or terrestrial fern with creeping rootstocks and large pinnatifid fronds found throughout North America and Europe and Africa and east Asia.
- synonyms: common polypody, adder's fern, wall fern, golden maidenhair, golden polypody, Polypodium vulgare
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America with sweet scented fernlike leaves and tiny white flowers.
- synonyms: Comptonia peregrina, Comptonia asplenifolia

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