WHERE TO FIND FERNS. 



I. EXPLANATORY. 



HE title of this little 

 work will indicate its 

 object. But some slight 

 explanation of its espe- 

 cial aim is necessary. 

 It is intended to be a 

 pocket volume. It will 

 not attempt to super- 

 sede larger and more 

 detailed and descriptive 

 fern-books. Yet, though 

 it will assume on the 

 part of its readers some 

 general knowledge of 

 the beautiful flowerless 

 plants which form its 

 subject, it will, for con- 

 venience-sake, give de- 

 scriptive, or rather de- 

 finitive, notes of the 

 ferns whose habitats 

 it will indicate. 



Already, in such works 

 as " THE FERN PORT- 

 FOLIO," " THE FERN 

 PARADISE," and "THE 

 FERN WORLD," the Author has given descriptive ac- 

 counts, accompanied by coloured and other illustra- 



