HOW TO KNOW
THE FERNS
BY
S. LEONARD BASTIN
WITH THIRTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
First Published in 1917
CONTENTS
CHAP. PAGE [I. The Ferns and their Allies] 1 [II. Life Histories] 13 [III. Yesterday and To-day] 23 [IV. Three Dainty Ferns] 33 [V. The Bracken Fern and Two Interesting Species] 38 [VI. The Male Fern and its Relatives] 46 [VII. The Lady Fern and the Spleenworts] 66 [VIII. The Polypodies] 86 [IX. The Royal Fern] 93 [X. Four Curious Ferns] 96 [XI. The Club Mosses] 101 [XII. The Horsetails] 112 [XIII. Fern Collecting and Preserving] 122 [XIV. The Culture of Ferns] 129 [ Index] 133
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE [The Bristle Fern]34 [The Tunbridge Filmy Fern]36 [The Bracken Fern]39 [The Maidenhair Fern]42 [The Maidenhair Fern (Enlarged view of Back of Frond)]43 [The Male Fern]47 [The Mountain Buckler Fern]51 [The Mountain Buckler Fern (Enlarged)]52 [Nephrodium dilatatum]54 [The Holly Fern]58 [The Oblong Woodsia]62 [The Brittle Bladder Fern]64 [Athyrium filix-fæmina]67 [The Rue-leaved Spleenwort]71 [The Rue-leaved Spleenwort (Enlarged Back of Frond)]72 [The Sea Spleenwort]76 [The Maidenhair Spleenwort]79 [The Green Spleenwort]81 [The Hartstongue]82 [The Sori on the Back of a Hartstongue Frond]83 [The Common Polypody]87 [Enlargement of the Sori on the Frond of Common Polypody]88 [The Beech Fern]89 [The Royal Fern]94 [The Adder’s Tongue]97 [The Moonwort]99 [The Common Club Moss]102 [The Fir Club Moss]104 [The Quillwort]108 [Azolla caroliniana]110 [Barren Stem of Equisetum arvense]113 [Fertile Cones of Equisetum maximum]115 [The Dutch Rush]120