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or especially of those obviously taken in a crowded fernery, we have the 
corrective close at hand in Miss Step’s coloured drawings. She has hardly, 
perhaps, caught the slender delicacy of Polypodium Dryopteris in plate 95 , and 
we notice that Mr. Step gives no photograph of P. rohertiauum, to which he 
only accords sub-specitic rank. It is a remarkable fact that, while herbarium 
specimens of these two forms seem to graduate imperceptibly into one another, 
no one familiar with them in the living state would ever think of so close a 
relationship. We sympathize with Mr. .Step in his indignation at the “ well-to- 
do woman ” who exterminated the Royal Fern, and on whom the author’s 
sarcasm was thrown away. “ We might as well,” he exclaims, “ have sought to 
stir up a crocodile by pelting it with paper confetti.” We also feel deeply the 
difficulty to which he next alludes ; “ Now that the Royal Ferns of Tregear are 
no more, the Cornwall County Council have made by-laws prohibiting such 
spoliation in future. But the making of such by-laws is one thing ; enforcing 
them in out-of-the-way places is another matter.” Altogether we have to thank 
Mr. Step for an excellent little book. 
Received : The Victorian Naturalist for October ; and The Naturalist, 
1 he Irish Naturalist (Special British Association Report), British Biids, The 
Animals' Friend, The Humanitarian, The Agricultural Economist, and The 
Estate Magazine for November. 
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