INDEX 
401 
Ferns — 
PAGE 
Germ atoms of . 8-9 
Grace and beauty of 4 
Habitats of 29-30, 33-5 
in cases, Cultivation 
of ... 
in pots 
in the temperate 
zones . 
in the torrid zone . 
in tropical forests . 
Luxuriance of growth 
87-9 
82-6 
4 
4 
4 
England 
of 
Number of species of 
to flowering plants 
throughout the 
world, Proportion 
of ... 
ditto, in 
and Wales 
ditto, in Scotland . 
ditto, within the 
polar regions 
Rachides of 
Rhizomas of . 
Rock- and- wall-loving 
15 
G 
4 
4 
4 
4 
18 
14 
13 
, 1C 
49 
9-10 
18 
18 
14 
Rootlets of 
Sensitive to thought- 
ful tenderness 
Spores of 
Stems of tree . 
Stipides of 
Structure of 
Suggestions for 
packing . . 100-1 
Time for repotting . 85 
Tropical gold and 
silver ... 6 
Tropical tree . . 5 
Uses of . . .36-41 
Varieties of . 4 
Feruy Combe, A . . 113-16 
Ferryman of Loch Tyne .214-5 
Filmy Ferns . . . 388-96 
Forked Spleenwort . . 344-6 
Plate 6, Fig. 14 . . 235 
Culture . . . 346 
Description . . 345-6 
Distribution . . 346 
Habitats . . . 344-5 
Frond buds . . . 10, 62-3 
Fronds, Arranging . . 104-5 
Barren . . . 24 
Fronds — 
PAGE 
Beauty and grace of 19 
Hi -pinnate 
. 20 
Botanical pajier 
for 
drying . 
. 103 
De-compound . 
. 20 
Divisions of . 
. 19-20 
Drying sheets for 
. 103-6 
Form and colouring 
of 
. 19 
Fruitful . 
. 24 
Gathering 
102-6 
Lobes of . 
20-21 
Method of pressin 
g 104-5 
Pinnae of. 
20-21 
Pinnate . 
. 20 
Pinnatifid 
. 20 
Pinnules of 
. 20 
Preservation of 
102-6 
Receptacles on 
. 22 
to stipides, Relative 
lengths of . 
. 24 
Scales on 
. 21 
Simple 
. 19 
Tri-pinnate 
. 20 
Unrolling of . 
20-21 
Veins of . 
. 22 
G. 
Garden, Febns in the . 
69-73 
Gathering fronds . 
102- 6 
General treatment of Ferns 55-8 
* Genus, 5 Definition of . 
26-27 
Germination of spores . 
. 8-10 
Germs of Fern life 
. 8-10 
Glass covering for Ferns 
56 
Glen Lyn 
129-33 
Glenthorne . 
111-13 
Goodrington Sands 
. 158 
Greenhouse for Ferns . 
56 
Green lanes . 
151-7 
Green tunnel of twigs . 
152-3 
Green Spleen woi't 
371-4 
Plate 12, Fig. 1 . 
. 369 
Culture . 
373-4 
Description 
371-2 
Distribution . 
372-3 
Habitats 
. 371 
Groups of Ferns . 
. 26 
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