In the thick shade grow giant ferns of tropic luxuriance.

Hither come the San Gabriel lads and lassies, to gather ferns and dabble away their hot holidays in the cool water, glad to escape from their commonplace palm-gardens and orange-groves.

So day after day went by: and no one knew of, or found the sweet wild fern, or the beautiful valley it grew in.

Well, they went on their walk and came back, with Lloyd (whom they had met somewhere) carrying their ferns for them.

THELÝPTERIS, meaning lady fern, is found to be the earliest name in use and according to rule the correct one.

" Ike was gone,out into the fields, over fences, over brooks, into woods, trampling down dewy ferns, glistening mosses, scarlet cornels, thickets of goldenrod and asters,he knew not where, muttering to himself all the while, and tossing his arms into the air.

THE WOODSIAS Small, tufted, pinnately divided ferns.

In identifying this fern the novice should bear in mind the tendency of the curved sori of youth to become straightened and even confluent with age, although such changes are rather unreliable.

A good time to collect ferns is just before the fruiting season.

The pale-gray riband, winding in a graceful curve round the crag, marked the old green road that was sometimes used for bringing down dry fern, and Grace's face got thoughtful as she noted a row of men and horses some distance off.

The outlines of the young bracken resemble the little oak fern.

Then follow the flowering ferns (Osmundàceæ) with three species; the curly grass and climbing ferns (Schizæàceæ) with two species; the adder's tongue and grape ferns (Ophioglossàceæ) with seven species; and the filmy ferns (Hymenophyllàceæ) with one species.

and she held up in triumph a tiny fern that had been so sheltered under the edge of a boulder that it had kept fresh and happy.

In this part of the world we know the Ferns only as a low herbaceous tribe of plants, consisting of mere fronds rising out of the ground.

You left a fern between the pages to mark the poem called 'Our Deaths'; did you know it?

One corner support and one side of the caving base were gone, letting ferns and lichens find a home within, tender green fronds touching the shadowing slab above them.

How our great expert, Mr. Davenport, loved the ferns!

The chapel of the latter contains two tombs (1) of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1352); (2) of Sir John Verney (d. 1461): note on the shield of the second the ferns or "verns."

Miss Christie was still up-stairs, Justina was seated at work in the drawing-room, and Emily, arrayed in a lilac print apron, was planting some fresh ferns in her jardiniere when the door was opened, and the servant announced Mr. Mortimer.

These new-comers had adorned themselves for the taupiti, the public fête, as they considered it, and as they came along the road had plucked ferns and flowers for wreaths.

Although the genus Polýstichum represents the true shield ferns, the wood ferns are also thus designated, as their indusia have nearly the shape of small, roundish shields.

Only the sellers of wreaths had arrived, and they seated themselves along the square, their ferns and flowers on the ground beside them.

It is one of our most graceful and delicate species, its long-tapering outline suggesting the bulblet bladder fern.

Your father would think the horticulturist insane, who took a delicate fern and planted it in arid soil, on a hilltop, far from shade, and expected it to thrive and bear blossoms like the cactus.

Oh were I A booming bee, to waft me to thy lair, Threading the fern and ivy in whose depths