How to Know the Ferns / A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habitats of Our Common Ferns

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

How to Know the Ferns New York Fern New York Fern

FERNS AS A HOBBY

WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS

WHEN AND WHERE TO FIND FERNS (2)

EXPLANATION OF TERMS

FERTILIZATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND FRUCTIFICATION OF FERNS

NOTABLE FERN FAMILIES OSMUNDA (Flowering Ferns)

HOW TO USE THE BOOK

GUIDE

FERN DESCRIPTIONS

GROUP I STERILE AND FERTILE FRONDS TOTALLY UNLIKE; FERTILE

GROUP II FERTILE FRONDS PARTIALLY LEAF-LIKE, THE FERTILE

GROUP III FERTILE FRONDS UNIFORMLY SOMEWHAT LEAF-LIKE IN

GROUP IV FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR;

GROUP V FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND SIMILAR;

GROUP VI FERTILE AND STERILE FRONDS LEAF-LIKE AND USUALLY SIMILAR, FRUIT-DOTS ROUND 37. NEW YORK FERN

INDEX TO LATIN NAMES

INDEX TO ENGLISH NAMES

INDEX TO TECHNICAL TERMS

BOOKS ON GARDEN FIELD AND WOOD

A GUIDE
TO THE NAMES, HAUNTS, AND HABITS OF
OUR COMMON FERNS

By
Frances Theodora Parsons
Author of "How to Know the Wild Flowers,"
"According to Season," etc.

Illustrated by
Marion Satterlee and Alice Josephine Smith

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1915


Copyright, 1899, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

TO
J. R. P.

"If it were required to know the position of the fruit-dots or the character of the indusium, nothing could be easier than to ascertain it; but if it is required that you be affected by ferns, that they amount to anything, signify anything to you, that they be another sacred scripture and revelation to you, helping to redeem your life, this end is not so easily accomplished."

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