30 WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



Yet, like nature everywhere, even in this seemingly fierce 

 aspect, there is an under-tone of pathos and tenderness ; 

 for how otherwise could the tender and beautiful ferns 

 cling so lovingly to their rough sides ? 



Let us look at the bit of scenery on the opposite 

 page from " the bonny Dee." In such a neighbourhood 



as this we should look and be disappointed not to find 

 the Parsley Fern, all the Polypodies, the Hard Prickly 

 Shield Fern, and the Holly Fern, the Brittle and the 

 Mountain Bladder Ferns, the Male, the Broad and the 

 Mountain Buckler Ferns, the Alternated, the Rue- 

 leaved, the Black Maidenhair, the Green, and the 

 Common Maidenhair Spleenworts. 



