6 HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS. 



F.L.S., &c. IGmo, pp. 156, with plain woodcuts of 



all the species and the principal varieties. 



The most important enumerations of the British Ferns 



elsewhere to 1>e met with, are those in the recent edition 



(6th) of Sir W. J. Hooker's < British Mora/ by Dr. Walker 



Arnott, and in Mr. Babiiigton's ' Manual of British Botany * 



(3rd edit.), in both of which they are treated with deference 



to modern views. Ample descriptions of them so far as 



then known, are given in Sir J. E. Smith's e English Flora/ 



accompanied by the synonyms of the older writers. 



Much has been achieved towards a thorough knowledge 

 of the English species, by the scrutiny to which the Ferns 

 at large have of late years been subjected, both in this 

 country and in Germany ; and we ought not to close this 

 paragraph without mentioning, of English botanists who 

 have contributed to this advance, the names of Brown, 

 Hooker, Wallich, Greville, J. Smith, and Heward, espe- 

 cially, as having most successfully dealt with a difficult 

 subject. 



