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methods of reproducing photographs and coloured drawings has made room for a 
popular comprehensive handbook such as this. Among books of the kind we 
seldom find illustrations of prolhallium, antheridia and archegonia, as well as 
those of the fronds and sori ; nor are the species of Hydropteridse, horse-tails, 
Hard Fern [Lomaria Sf>icant). 
F'rom “ Wayside and Woodland Ferns” (by kind permission of Messrs. 
Warner and Co.). 
club-mosses and quill-worts usually treated as fully as the more popular ferns. 
We have often doubted whether photographs of some natural objects, such as 
fossils and ferns, however well they may be taken, convey as clear a conception 
of them as a drawing ; but if this doubt is confirmed when we look at some 
of Mr. .Step’s excellent photographs, such as that of the Osmiinda, in plate 98, 
