CONTENTS. 



Page. 



PREFACE lx 



I. HISTORY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF EXOTIC FERNS ... 1 



II. ORGANOGRAPHY, EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS USED 



IN DESCRIBING FERNS 44 



III. CLASSIFICATION OF FERNS EXPLAINED 56 



IV. GENERIC CHARACTER AND ENUMERATION OF CULTI- 



VATED SPECIES , 73 



V. ETYMOLOGY, THE MEANING OF THE GENERIC NAMES... 293 



VI. THE CULTIVATION OF FERNS , 301 



I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS 301 



II. SPECIAL OR POT CULTIVATION 308 



III. NATURAL CULTIVATION 343 



IV. WARDIAN CASE CULTIVATION 354 



V. PROPAGATION 36i 



VII. LIST OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS QUOTED IN THIS 



WORK .' 373 



VIII. GENERAL INDEX OF GENERA, SPECIES, AND SYN- 



ONYMES 381 



IX. INDEX OF SPECIAL TERMS . 411 



