LIST OF PLATES 



Bracken in Autumn (Colony). 



Frontispiece 



A World in Miniature 



A Bank of Feather Mosses (Colour) 



One of the Cycads .... 



A New Zealand Tree Fern . 



The Male Fern ..... 



A Colony of Little Male Ferns . 



The Sporangia of .a Fern 



Fern Sporangium ..... 



Fern Sporangium in the Act of Bursting to 



the Spores ..... 

 Baby Fern with Prothallus 

 The Bracken Fern .... 

 The Underground Stem of the Bracken Fe 

 Bracken Fern showing Fronds . 

 The Lady Fern 



RUE-LE.AVED SpLEENWORT 



The Maidenhair Spleenwort 



The Hart's-Tongue .... 



The Royal Fern 



The Black Maidenh.wr Spleenwort 

 The Moonwort ..... 

 The Hard Fern ..... 

 The Adder's-Tongue .... 

 The Polypody ..... 



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