NEW WORK on BRITISH FERNS by Sir W.J. HOOKER. 



In Sixteen Numbers (uniform with ' Curtis' Botanical Magazine' J, each containing Four 

 Coloured Plates, price 2s. 6d., of 



THE BRITISH FERNS. 



Sin W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., 



Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew. 



THE DEAWINGS BY W. PITCH, F.L.S. 



Notwithstanding the many publications that have appeared of late years upon the Ferns of 

 the British Isles, a new Work, such as we have the pleasure to announce, by Sir W. J. Hooker, 

 supported by the talents of his unrivalled artist, Mr. Fitch, will be acceptable both to Culti- 

 vators of British Ferns and to Collectors of them for the Herbarium. It is intended to arrange 

 them in Sixty-four Plates of Coloured Figures, with the needful Analyses of Fructification, so as 

 to exhibit the Characters of the Genus as well as of the Species ; and the Descriptions will be 

 entirely in English. 



The Work will be issued in Monthly Numbers (No. 1 on the 1st of January), and will be com- 

 pleted in Sixteen Numbers, each of Four Plates, price 2s. Qd. ; making £2 for the complete Volume. 



LONDON : LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



NEW WORK on GARDEN PERNS by Sir W. J. HOOKER. 



In Monthly Numbers (uniform with ' Curtis' Botanical Magazine' ), each containing Four 

 Coloured Plates, price 2s. 6d., of 



GARDEN FERNS. 



Sir W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., 



Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew. 



THE DRAWINGS BY W. PITCH, P.L.S. 



The attention of horticulturists having been increasingly directed of late years to this lovely 

 tribe of plants, than which few are more easy of cultivation, and, as is now clearly demonstrated, 

 few more easily imported from distant regions of the globe, it is intended to issue a special Work 

 for their Illustration and Description, uniform in size and style with ' Curtis' Botanical Maga- 

 zine.' As it may be considered a supplement to that work, the comparatively few Ferns among 

 the 6,200 Species of Plants there Figured and Described, will not be repeated ; nor will those so 

 beautifully and faithfully depicted by Mr. Fitch in the recently-completed volume on Exotic 

 Ferns.* 



The rich Collections of the Royal Gardens of Kew would alone afford ample materials for 

 such a work ; but it is by no means intended to be exclusive. Contributions of good samples of 

 species of great rarity, hitherto undescribed, will be thankfully received and fully acknowledged. 



The greatest pains will be taken to give accurate delineations, and such analyses as the Species 

 or Genus requires, accompanied by such descriptions as may render each individual as clear to 

 the mind of the Student or Cultivator as the subject and the size of the page will admit. 



The Author, while he willingly acknowledges the great difficulty of defining the exact limits 

 of Genera and Species in plants so notorious for their sportive character as are the Ferns, con- 

 fesses that he has no sympathy with those who do much to increase that difficulty by the needless 

 mutiplication of both Genera and Species. Synonyms and references to standard authors will 

 be carefully recorded. 



A Number, consisting of Four Coloured Plates, will appear on the 1st of January, 1861, and 

 be continued Monthly, price 2s. 6d. 



* ' Filices Exoticse,' being Figures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns cultivated, chiefly, in the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew ; By Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., etc. Handsome Quarto, 100 Coloured Plates, £6. Us. 

 Published by Lovell Reeve. 



LONDON : LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



