[Illustration: A Fern Lover]

The Fern Lover's Companion

A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada

BY

GEORGE HENRY TILTON, A.M.

  "This world's no blot for us  Nor blank; it means intensely and it means good  To find its meaning is my meat and drink."

DEDICATION

To Alice D. Clark, engraver of these illustrations, who has spared no pains to promote the artistic excellence of this work, and to encourage its progress, these pages are dedicated with the high regards of THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Key to Genera
• Classification of Ferns
• The Polypodies
• The Bracken Group:
  • Bracken
  • Cliff Brakes
  • Rock Brake
• The Lip Ferns (Cheilanthes)
• The Cloak Fern (Notholæna)
• The Chain Ferns
• The Spleenworts:
•   The Rock Spleenworts. Asplenium
•   The Large Spleenworts. Athyrium
• Hart's Tongue and Walking Leaf
• The Shield Ferns:
  • Christmas and Holly Fern
  • Marsh Fern Tribe
  • The Beech Ferns
  • The Fragrant Fern
  • The Wood Ferns
  • The Bladder Ferns
• The Woodsias
• The Boulder Fern (Dennstædtia)
• Sensitive and Ostrich Ferns
• The Flowering Ferns (Osmunda)
• Curly Grass and Climbing Fern
• Adder's Tongue
• The Grape Ferns:
  •   Key to the Grape Fern
  •   Moonwort
  •   Little Grape Fern
  •   Lance-leaved Grape Fern
  •   Matricary Fern
  •   Co
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