Looks like a fern, but is it?

The two photos are of different but similar plants. They each have a single stalk and fernlike leaves. One has a bloom.

 

Does #1 smell like a carrot?

Ooh...could it be Conium maculatum?

 

#2 looks like a Sceptridium sp.

 

I don't believe either of them are ferns. One hint - ferns don't bloom.

 

Agree with Sceptridium spp., though this genus is usually included in Botrychium. Try keying them out in Flora N America here:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=104332

I see no flowers - that is a spore-bearing frond in the second pic.

 

Thanks to all for replying. I checked out images of sceptridium and botrychium and the plants I saw very much resemble them. They are growing in a wooded area near Annapolis, Maryland, USA.