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"The cheerful community of the polypody"
From a photograph by Miss Madeline Smith. Frontispiece
  Page New York Fern xvi "The greatest charm the ferns possess is that of their surroundings"
From a photograph by Mr. Augustus Pruyn. 12
  Fiddleheads 18 Fragile Bladder Fern 19 Crested Shield Fern 20 Purple Cliff Brake 22 Ternate Grape Fern 24 Evergreen Wood Fern 27 Sensitive Fern 55 Cinnamon Fern 60 Royal Fern 68 Interrupted Fern 74 Climbing Fern 75 Rattlesnake Fern 80 Slender Cliff Brake 89 "The unpromising wall of rock which rose beside us"
From a photograph by Miss Ledyard. 94
  More compound frond of Purple Cliff Brake 95 Christmas Fern 97 Narrow-leaved Spleenwort 98 Brake 106 Maidenhair 110 Mountain Spleenwort 130 Mountain Spleenwort 132 "In the shaded crevices of a cliff"
From a photograph by Miss Madeline Smith. 132
  Maidenhair Spleenwort 137 Walking Leaf 146 "We fairly gloated over the quaint little plants"
From a photograph by Miss Ledyard. 148
  Hart's Tongue