TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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INTRODUCTION, - ix 



ABBREVIATIONS, xii 



CHAPTER I. Haunts and Habits of Ferns, i 



II. The Organs of the Growing Fern, 8 



III. Fructification in Ferns, 10 



IV. Germination of Fern Spores, 19 



V. Fern Structure/ 24 



VI. The Fern Allies 28 



VII. Classification and Nomenclature, 41 



VIII. The Fern's Place in Nature, 48 



IX. Distribution in Time and Space, 62 



X. Methods of Study, 7O 



OUR NATIVE PTERIDOPHYTA. 



ORDER I. FILICES, 75- 



II. MARSILIACE^E, 125 



III. SALVINIACE^E, I2 7 



IV. OPHIOGLOSSACE^E, I2 8 



V. EQUISETACE^E 132 



VI. LYCOPODIACE^E, 1 3S 



VII. SELAGINELLACE^E 140 



VIII. ISOETACE^E, . 142 



INDEX AND GLOSSARY *49 



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