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enjoyment incidental to Fern-hunting apart from the quest itself. 

 We have innumerable pleasant memories of brilliant days spent 

 in the Devonian combes and shady lanes, on the rugged flanks of 

 the Lakeland mountains, in Scottish glens, on breezy moors, and, 

 in short, in innumerable lovely localities to which we were led 

 primarily by our love for the Ferns and the chances of adding to the 

 number of their wonderful variants. 



