LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF 

 PLATES. 



FRONTISPIECE. Corner of the writer's greenhouse, with Blech~ 

 num Brasiliense in centre ; Lomaria gibba and Platycerium alcicornt 

 below. The bell-glass covers a pan of Trichomanes radicans. 

 Hanging-baskets to the left. Ficus repens on the wall, and Selagi- 

 nellas, Adiantums, and Panicum variegatum in foreground. Young ' 

 plant of B. Brasiliense at lower right-hand corner, and directly 

 above it Nephrodium setigerum. 



PLATE I. Out-of-door fernery. 



PLATE II. Notholcena dealbata, Kunze. 



PLATE III. Growth of a fern (Pteris serrulata, Lin. f.) from 

 the spore (figs. 5-18), as compared with that of a squash from the 

 seed (figs. 1-4). I, squash-seed; 2, the same with one cotyledon 

 removed, showing the plumule ; 3, the same in longitudinal section 

 to show plumule and radicle; 4, the same after one week's growth ; 

 Pteris serriilata (after Moore), 5, spore; 6-9, growth si prothallus ; 

 9 a, antheridia; 9 , archegonia; 10, two antheridia enlarged, the 

 one at the right empty; n, one cell of antheridium containing 

 a single antherozoid ; 12, antherozoid enlarged; 13, archegonium, 

 longitudinal section to show germinal vesicle; 14, the same seen 

 from above; 15, plant-bud starting underneath the prothallus 

 (after Sachs) ; 16-18, various stages of young plant's growth. 



PLATE IV. Pellaa densa, Hk. 



PLATE V. Fern-structure (after Smith, Sachs, Hooker). I, 

 enlarged spore-case of Polypodium ; 2, ditto of Gleichenia, ; 3, 

 ditto of Schizaa ; 4, sorus of Polypodium; 5, spore-case of Os- 



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