CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
Preface ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... vii. 
Introduction ... ... ... ... ... ... ... i 
Culture and Propagation ... ... ... ... ... 3 
Fern Rockeries, Frames, etc. ... ... ... ... .8 
Ferns for Shady Gardens ... ... ... ... ... 11 
Ferns in Rooms .. ... ... ... ... 16 
Fern Hunting ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 
Fern Crossing and Hybridising ... ... ... ... 24 
Adiantum Capillus Veneris (The Maiden-hair) ... ... 36 
Allosorus crispus (The Parsley P'erns) ... ... ... 37 
Asplenium (The Spleenworts)... ... ... ... ... 38 
Athyrium Filix-fcemina (The Lady Fern) ... ... ... 44 
Blechnum spicant (The Hard Fern) .. ... ... ... 53 
Botrychium lunaria (The Moonwort) ... ... ... 56 
Cystopteris (The Bladder Ferns) ... ... ... ... 56 
Gymnogramma leptophylla ... ... ... ... ... 57 
Lastreas (The Buckler Ferns) ... ... ... ... 57 
Ophioglossum vulgatum (The Adder’s-tongue) ... ... 64 
OSMUNDA REGALIS (ThE ROYAL FERN) ... ... ... ... 64 
Polypodiums (The Polypodies) ... ... ... 66 
Polystichums (The Shield Ferns) ... ... ... ... ^ 
Pteris aouilina (The Common Bracken) ... ... ... 7s 
SCOLOPENDRIUM VULGARE (The HART’S-TONGUE) ... ... 79 
Trichomanes radicans and Hymenophyllums (The Filmy 
Ferns) ... ... .. ... ... ... ... £6 
Woodsias, The ... ... ... ... ... ... ... sg 
Appendix (Fern Reproduction, Normal and Abnormal, and 
Linnean Papers on Apospory) ... ... ... g t 
Weismann’s Theory of Heredity ... ... ... , I22 
The species and varieties having been alphabetically arranged, a Jnrlhet 
index has been considered superfluous. 
