

OUR NATIVE FERNS; 



HISTORY or THE 

 BRITISH SPECIES AND THEIR YARIETIES. 



VOLUME I. 



POLYPODIUM. 



ALLOSORUS. 



GYMNOGRAMMA. 



POLYSTICHUM. 



LASTREA. 



COXTAINISG DESCRIFTIONS OF TWENTY-TWO SPECIES AXD THREE HTINDKED 

 AND EIGHTY-FOUR VARIETIES OF BRITISH FERNS. 





BY 



E^j'ft 



WE, ESQ., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.M.S., 



Memb. Scottish Meteor. See., Hon. Mem. Dublin >"at. Hist. Soc., Mem. Geolog. Soc. Edin., 



Corr. Mem. Lyceum Nat. Hist., New York, Corr. Mem. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc., etc., 



Author of a "Natural History of British and Exotic Ferns," "British Grasses," 



"New and Rare Ferns," "Beautiful LeaTed Plants," etc. 



WITH THIRTY-SEVEN COLOURED PLATES, AND THREE 

 HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS. 



LONDON: *b 



GEOOMBEIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATEENOSTER EOW. 



K DCCC LXV. 



