On the\st of September , 1857 , (to be continued Monthly) will be Published 
Part I., containing Eight Plates , royal quarto , with Descriptive 
Text , price 10<?., coloured , of 
FILICES EXOTICA; 
OR, 
FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF EXOTIC FERNS, 
PARTICULARLY OP SUCH AS ARE MOST DESERVING OE 
CULTIVATION, 
BY 
Sir WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
BIRECTOR OP THE ROYAL GARDENS OP KEW. 
The extreme beauty of the Fern Tribe, the prevailing taste for their 
study, together with the great facility with which they are cultivated, have 
suggested a Publication under the above title, which shall include Figures 
and Descriptions of those Exotic Ferns which are most worthy of being 
reared in our Stoves, our Greenhouses, or in the open air. The Drawings 
and Lithographic Plates will be executed by Mr. Fitch, who is acknowledged 
to stand unrivalled as a botanical artist ; and Sir William Hooker has under- 
taken to edit the work, and to furnish the Descriptive Matter. The Royal 
Gardens of Kew would in themselves afford ample materials for such a work, 
as the late Catalogue of Genera and Species prepared last year by the able 
Curator, Mr. Smith, abundantly testifies, although the Lycoyodiaceve , or 
Club-Mosses,- — plants of exquisite beauty; long supposed to be of difficult 
cultivation, but now amounting to numerous species in our collections, — are 
there excluded ; and it is well known that no section of the Fern-kind re- 
quires more accurate illustration, and that none is more difficult to determine. 
Such a publication will, not only by figures and analyses of the fructifica- 
tion, and by descriptions, furnish an accurate idea of the Genus and Species, 
but will tend also to abolish many incorrect names, which have been great 
impediments to the successful study of this charming and graceful Family of 
Plants, and also to check the present rage for forming new Genera upon 
insufficient grounds. 
The Work cannot fail to prove of great value to all interested in Horti- 
culture, particularly to the Gardener and Nurseryman, as well as to the scien- 
tific Botanist. 
LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 
