A natural history of ferns

Life Cycle of Ferns

In Search of the Fern Seed

Spore Shooting

Sporadic Results

The Asexual Revolution

Reproduction by Buds

Hybridization and Polyploidy

Classification of Ferns

The Falsely Famed Fern Allies

The Fern Fraternity

Genres of Genera

At the Movies

Fern Fossils

Giants of the Carboniferous

A Horsetail's Tale?

Hangers-on from the Mesozoic

The Fern Spike

How Old Are Ferns?

Adaptations by Ferns

The Potato Fern

How Ferns Become Trees

Iridescent Ferns and Their Shady Behavior

Leaf Scales and Water Uptake

Some Quirks of Quillworts

Bracken, the Poisoner

Spira Mirabilis

Fern Geography

Robinson Crusoe?s Ferns

Sino-American Relations

Ferns of the Lost World

Ferns, Flashlights, and Tertiary Forests

Tropical Diversity

Ferns and People

Serpent's-Tongue Tea

The Molesting Salvinia

Little Nitrogen Factories

Nardoo

Pteridomania

The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary