38 WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



Society, we reproduce from their engraving a little bit 

 of water and fern. What a happy figure is this fern, and 

 who can doubt that it is the beautiful Lady Fern ? What 

 beauty and grace does this lovely plant fling over the 

 wild yet romantic scene in which it figures ! 



For a bit, now, of characteristic Cumberland scenery, 

 how could we do better than give the " Lodore Fall ? " 

 (page 39). A glance at our Index of Localities at the 



end of this volume will tell the reader that Lodore Fall 

 is one of the habitats of the One-sided Filmy Fern ; but 

 further search through the succeeding pages will prove 

 that, out of the forty-five species of ferns figured and 

 described, no less than thirty-four are to be found in 

 Cumberland. Rich, indeed, are the counties of Devon 

 and Cumberland in the beautiful denizens of wood, lane, 

 and stream-bank ; and no hunting collector would go 

 away from such a neighbourhood as that just illustrated 



