WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



Hampshire. Those who may be tempted to wander that 

 way may like* to know that they will, at least, find (besides 



Pteris aquilina\ in the 

 New Forest, Osmunda 

 , regah's, Lastrea man- 

 tana, Lastrea dilatata, 

 Lastrea filix-mas, and 

 Lastrea spinulosa, Po- 

 lystichum aculeatum, 

 and Polystichum an- 

 gulare, Asplenium adi- 

 antum - nigrum, and 

 the Rue-leaved, the 

 Scaly, and the 

 Common Maidenhair 

 Spleenworts, the Lady 

 Fern, the Harts- 

 tongue, the Common 

 Polypody, and the 

 Common Adders- 

 tongue. 



And now, dear fern- 

 hunter, if there be 

 one thing more than 

 another that will stir 

 your enthusiasm, per- 

 haps it will be the 

 sight of a wood such 

 as the one on page 44; 

 for, perhaps, if one 

 place be more fasci- 

 nating for the fern- 

 lover than another, it 

 is the shady, the 

 mysterious, the always 



delicious depths of a wood when the summer sunshine 

 glints through the trees, bringing up into fine relief the 



