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WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



distributed species and of the smaller districts for the 

 rarer kinds in which each fern has been discovered 

 growing wild. For some of this information as to county 

 localities, the Author is indebted to Mr. Hewett Watson's 

 " Topographical Botany." To give minutely-detailed 

 indications of the exact spots in which the various ferns 



are to be found would be to destroy half the charm of 

 fern-hunting. 



The Author desires especially to impress upon those 

 who may read and use this book that there is no outing 

 in the country however brief may be the period during 

 which it lasts, and however apparently unpromising may 



