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surface being always turned outward. In such dis- 

 creet fashion, exposing as little of themselves as 

 may be, they weather it out until the rains come 

 again, when they expand and freshen up in the 

 descending drops with that cheerfulness and irre- 

 pressible enjoyment of the wet that only dwellers 

 in a dry land can know. 



For descriptions of the California ferns in the exact language 

 of science, readers are referred to "Our Native Ferns and Their 

 Allies," by Lucien M. Underwood. An interesting paper entitled 

 "The Fern Flora of California," by S. B. Parish, printed in The Fern 

 Bulletin for January, 1904, gives a complete list of species with their 

 distribution in the State. Hall's "A Yosemite Flora" contains de- 

 scriptions and illustrations of many of the Sierra ferns. 



