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A LIST OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS 



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 scien- 

 tific journals of their time, and which are too numerous to notice 

 iu this work. Those with an asterisk are Hying authors. 



*Agardh. J. C. 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 Eoyal 



Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1760 to 1841 ; authors of 1st and 



2nd edition of " Hortus Kewensis," 1793 and 1813. 

 A. Eich. A. Bichard, a French botanist ; " Voyage de 1' Astrolabe 



(Botanique)." 

 *Arn. Walker Arnott, Professor of Botany at the University, 



Glasgow (see Hook, et Am.}. 



*Bab. C. C. Babington, Professor of Botany at the University, 



Cambridge ; an eminent British botanist. 

 ^Backhouse. James Backhouse & Son, nurserymen, York ; 



importers and cultivators of Ferns. 

 Bauer. Francis Bauer, a celebrated botanical painter (see Hook 



et Bauer). 

 Beauv. Palisot de Beauvois, a French botanist ; author of " Flore 



d'Oware;" figures and descriptions of plants in the Bight of 



Benin, 1810. 



Bernh. J. J. Bernhardi, Professor of Botany at Erfurt. 

 Blume. C. L. Blume, Director of the Botanic Garden, Batavia ; 



"Enum. Plant. Jav.," 1830 ; " Fl. Jav.," figures and descrip- 

 tions of the plants of Java. 

 Bolt. J. Bolton, an English botanist ; " Fil. Brit.," figures of 



British Ferns, 1790. 



