396 LIST OF AUTHORS. 



PART IV. 



LIST OF AUTHOKS AND BOOKS. 



THE AUTHORITIES FOR THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES 

 QUOTED IN THIS WORK. 



N.B. When no special book is quoted after an author's 

 name, his writings on Ferns are to be found in botanical 

 and other scientific journals of their time, especially in the 

 " Linnse," a German periodical work ; and botanical jour- 

 nals in this and other countries. 



Agardh. J. G. Agardh, Professor of Botany at Stockholm ; 



author of a " Monograph on the genus Pteris." 

 Ait. W. & W. T. Aiton, father and son, Directors of the 



Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1760 to 1841 ; 



authors of 1st and 2nd edition of " Hortus Kewensis," 



1793 and 1813. 

 Andrews. W. Andrews, an Irish amateur botanist ; " On 



British Hymenophylleae." 

 A. Rich. A. Richard, a French botanist ; " Voyage de 



1' Astrolabe (Botanique)." 



Arn. Walker Arnott, Professor of Botany at the Univer- 

 sity, Glasgow (see Hook, et Arn.) 



Bab. 0. C. Balington, Professor of Botany at the Univer- 

 sity, Cambridge ; an eminent British botanist. 



Backhouse. James Backhouse & Son, nurserymen, York ; 

 importers and cultivators of Ferns. 



Bak. J. G. Baker, Assistant Curator of the Kew Herba- 

 rium ; editor of Hooker's " Synopsis Filicum," 1 vol., 

 1868 ; second edition and appendix to the above, 1874 ; 

 "Ferns of Brazil" in "Martius' Flora" of Brazil; 



