INDEX 
Stoke Fleming . . . 170 
Stone for Fern rockery . 72 
Structure of Ferns . . 14 24 
Study of Nature 48-50, 77, 96, 99 
Subterranean Fern-culture . 67-8 
Sunlight as an element in 
the landscape . . . 156 
Superstitions concerning 
Ferns ..... 4.3.4, 
407 
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I unbridge Filmy Fern — 
Distribution . . 391-2 
Habitats . . 388-9 
U. 
'Unseen Spirits’ and ‘Fern 
seed ’ Gatherers . . 44 
Uses of Ferns . . . 36-41 
T. 
Teachings of Nature 50 , 77, 80 
88 , 101 
Three-branched Polypody .263-5 
Plate 7, Fig. 4 ‘ . 253 
Culture . . . 265 
Description . . 263-4 
Distribution . . 265 
Habitats . . . 263 
used for coughs . 41 
for fearful d reams 41 
melancholy or 
quartan agues . 41 
shortness of breath 41 
Torbay . 150, 155-6, 158 67 
Torcross . . . .171 
Torquay . . . 155, 159 
Tropical Forests, Ferns in . 5 
Tropical tree Ferns . . 5 
Triciiomanes radicans . 237-41 
Culture . . . 240-1 
Description . . 237-9 
Distribution . 239-40 
Habitats . . . 237 
•Tunnel of green twigs . .152-3 
True Maidenhair . . . 220-3 
Plate 5, Fig. 1 . . 225 
Culture . . . 223 
Description . . 220-2 
Distribution . . 222-3 
Habitats . . . 220 
Devon habitat of . 161 
used for ‘ Capillaire’ 36 
Tunbridge Filmy Fern . 388-92 
Plate 6, Fig. 2 . . 235 
Culture . . . 392 
Description . 389-91 
y. 
Valley of the Rocks 
. 134-5 
Valleys of the Lyn 
1 17-33 
Variations of British Ferns 
. 182 
‘ Varieties,’ Definition of 
. 25 
Veins of Fronds . 
. 22 
Ventilation of Fern cases 
. 89 
Fern houses 
. 79-80 
Vermifuge from Ferns . 
. 37 
w. 
Wall-Rue . . . .350-4 
Watchet .... IK) 
Water for Fern Garden . 73 
Watering Ferns in house . 80 
Watersmeet, near Lynmouth 120 1 
126-7 
Waving green, Sea and 
sky and . . . 150-57 
Wherrington Cove . . 170 
Window-garden of Ferns . 88 
Winter Fern Garden . . 81 
Witches and Moon wort . 43 
Woodsias . . . .303-7 
Woodsia alpina . . .307-9 
Culture . . . 309 
Description . . 307-8 
Distribution . .308-9 
Habitats . . . 307 
ilvensis . . . 303-6 
Culture . . . 306 
Description . . 303-5 
Distribution . .305-6 
Habitats . . . 303 
W orcestershire superstitions 
concerning ‘ Fern seed ’ . 44 
