xii INTEODUCTORT. 
of nature are so widely known. This process will be 
found described in an early chapter of this work, 
together with an invention of my own, equally 
simple, for the easy packing and transmission of 
Ferns. 
With these few words I send forth my little 
book to the public, hoping it may induce others 
to explore, as successfully as I have done, the 
pleasant haunts of my favourites, the natives of 
beautiful Fern -land. 
