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‘Handbook to the Ferns of British India, 
Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula.’ Here we 
must not forget to mention Gray-who, in his 
treatise on the ‘ Botany of the Bombay Presi- 
dency,’ * mentions about fifty species of Ferns. 
If our readers wish to consult the plant- 
material on which this volume is based, they 
will finda complete collection of the ferns 
mentioned, in the Herbarium of St. Xavier's 
College, In addition we examined the herbaria 
of the Economic Botanist at Poona, of’ the 
Bombay Natural History Society, of Mr. L. J. 
Sedgwick, and of the Sibpur Botanic Gardens, 
Calcutta. 
2. Tue STRUCTURE OF FERNS 
Before: the beginner can proceed with the 
study of Ferns, it will be well for him to be 
acquainted with their structure and the terms 
which are in vogue and which it is impossible to 
omit in any treatise on Ferns, however ele- 
mentary it may be. If the terminology is made 
clear at the outset, very little difficulty will be 
experienced by the reader in the course-of his 
studies of Ferns. 
1Ww.! Gray: The ‘Botany of the Bombay Presidency ’; in 
Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xxv. 
