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THE FERN WORLD 
INDEX TO PLATE 1.* 
FRONDS UNROLLING. 
Fig. 1. Soft Prickly Shield Fern 
\_Polyslichum angular e\ 
2 . Male Fern 
[Lastrea filix-mas\ 
3 & 3 a . Broad Buckler Fern 
\_Lastrca dilatatd\ 
4. Hartstongue (small frond) 
\Scolopendrium vulgare ] 
5. Lady Fern 
[A thyrium fiiix- fa min a] 
6. Hartstongue (small root with fronds unrolling) 
\_Scolopendrium vulgare ] 
7. Lady Fern (portion of crown of rootstock with fronds 
unrolling) 
[A thyrium Jilix-famina] 
8. Prickly-toothed Buckler Fern (small frond unrolling) 
\Lastrea spinulosa \ 
9. Brittle Bladder Fern 
[ Cystopteris fragilis] 
10. Hay-scented Buckler Fern (small frond unrolling) 
1 Last tea recurva ] 
* The INDEX at the end of the volume will include the pages where the coloured plates 
and the letterpress description of each species of Fern will be found. 
