iv PREFACE. 



additional useful information in the more extended Popular 

 History of British Ferns* already mentioned. 



As a help to those readers who may not be familiar 

 with the scisntific names derived from the Greek and 

 Latin languages, these names have all been accentuated 

 in the Index. 



* A POPULAR HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS, and the Allied Plants. By 

 THOMAS MOORE, P.L.S., F.H.S. 3rd and revised edition. London: 

 Routledge, Warae, and Koutledge, Farringdon Street. 



