8 HISTORY OF niUTISII TERNS. 



9. The British Ferns, pojnilarhj described. By G. W. 

 Johnson. 1857. IGaio, jip. 284 ; ^vooclcuts. — Another 

 compihxtion, .iffecting to be "as free as possible from 

 the jargon of botanical language." 



The most important enumerations of the British Ferns 

 elsewhere to be met with, are those in the " British Flora'' 

 of Sir "W. J, Hooker and Dr. Walker Arnott, and in the 

 " Manual of British Botany" of Mr. Babington. Ample 

 descriptions, accompanied by the synonyms of the older 

 writers, occur in Sir J. E. Smith's " English Flora." 



