NEW WORK on BRITISH FERNS by Sir W.J. HOOKER. 



In Sateen Nmiiers (wniform with ' Cwtis' BatamMal Magadme'), each contaimmg Fow 

 OoUmred Plaies, price 2s. 6d., of 



THE BEITISH FERNS. 



BT 



Sir W.,J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., 



Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the 

 Eoyal Gardens of Kew. 



THE DRA"Wri]SrGS BT "W. FITCH, P-Ii-S. 



Notwithstanding the many publications that ha,Te appeared of late years upon the Ferns of 

 the British Isles, a new Work, such as we have the pleasure to announce, by Sir W. J. Hoozee, 

 supported by the talents of his unrivalled artist, Mr. Fitch, will be acceptable both to Culti- 

 vators of British Ferns and to Collectors of them for the Herbarium. It is intended to arrange 

 them in Sixty-four Plates of Coloured Figures, with the needful Analyses of Fructification, so as 

 to exhibit the Characters of the Genus as well aa of the Species; and the Descriptions will be 

 entirely in English. 



The Work mil be issued m Monthly lumbers (No. 1 on the 1st of January), and will be com- 

 pleted in Sixteen Numbers, each of Four Plates, price 2s. 6(2. ; making £2 for the complete Volume. 



LONDON : LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



NEW WORK on GARDEN FERNS by Sir W. J. HOOKER. 



In Monthly Nvmbers (wiifom with ' Curtis' Botomieal Magazine'), each contaimmg Fow 

 Oolowred Plates, price 2s. 6d., of ^ 



GARDEN EERNS. 



Sir W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., 



Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the 

 Eoyal Gardens of Kew. 



THE DRAWINGS BT "W. PITCH, P-Xi-S. 



The attention of horticulturists having been increasingly directed of late years to this lovely 

 tribe of plants, than which few are more easy of cultivation, and, as is now clearly demonstrated, 

 few more easily imported from distant regions of the globe, it is intended to issue a special Work 

 for their Illustration and Description, umform in size and style with ' Curtis' Botanical Maga- 

 zine.' As it may be considered a supplement to that work, the comparatively few Ferns among 

 the 6,200 Species of Plants there Figured and Described, will not be repeated; nor will those so 

 beautifully and faithfully depicted by Mr. Fitch in the recently-completed volume on Exotic 

 Ferns.* 



The rich Collections of the Eoyal Gardens of Kew would alone afford ample materials for 

 such a work ; but it is by no means intended to be exclusive. Contributions of good samples of 

 species of great rarity, hitherto undescribed, will be thankfully received and fuUy acknowledged. 



The greatest pains will be taken to give accurate delineations, and such analyses as the Species 

 or Genua requires, accompanied by such descriptions as may render each individual as dear to 

 the mind of the Student or Cultivator as the subject and the siae of the page wfll admit. 



The Author, while he willingly acknowledges the great difficulty of defining the exact limita 

 of Genera and Species in plants so notorious for their sportive character as are the Ferns, con- 

 fesses that he has no sympathy with those who do much to increase that difficulty by the needless 

 mutiplioation of both Genera and Species. Synonyms and references to standard authors ^iill 

 be carefully recorded. 



A Number, consisting of Four Coloured Plates, wiU appear on the 1st of January, 1861, and 

 be continued Monthly, price 2s. 6d. 



* ■KUoesBxofioas,' being Kffures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns cultivated, chiefly in the Eoyal 

 Gajdeiis of Kew. By SirW". J. Hooker, K.H., etc. Handsome Quarto, 100 Coloured Hates, £6. l'I». 

 Pubhahed by Lovell Beeve. ' 



LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



