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his garden at Wanganui. Our readers will remember the excellent 
paper which he contributed to this Journal in 1878 (p. 868); and 
it is very satisfactory to have the complete results of his experience 
Colony, and is planned upon the same general lines as Newman's 
Handbook of the British Ferns and Eaton’s Illustrated Manual of the 
first chapter is devoted to introductory observations. The second 
describes in a popular manner ‘“ what constitutes a fern.” The 
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fourth explains how ferns are classified. The fifth and sixth 
chapters give directions for collecting, pressing, and cultivating 
ferns. The seventh chapter, which constitutes the great bulk of 
the book, contains an account in detail of each of the New Zealand 
i otes on its variations, localities, and behaviour 
under cultivation. Of the twenty-nine plates, the first contains an 
analysis of the structure of the New Zealand genera, and the others 
process-pictures of each of the New Zealand Species, several to 
a plate. 
scribed p. 91, figured tab. 25, fig. 4, is evidently conspecific with 
the cosmopolitan P. cretica. The Cheilanthes described as a new 
vulcanica. L. parvifolia Colenso, figured tab. 25, fig. 5, exactly 
matches L. pumila Raoul, which is a shade variety of L. australis. 
L. aggregata Colenso, described p. 108, figured tab. 29, fig. 7, is 
evidently a mere form of L. lanceolata. Aspidium oculatum Hook., 
figured tab. 29, fig. 2, is a mere form of A. Richardi, I cannot 
distinguish Trichomanes venustulum Colenso (p. 71, tab. 15, fig. 1) 
as a@ species, from 7’. venosum R. Br. +. Gow 
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