cxvi Appendix A . 
pp. 80, 26 woodcuts of exhibits by W. Fitch, and descriptions of 
560 objects most worth the visitor’s inspection. See also Kew 
Gard. Misc., vols. v, vi, and vii. 
1857. Report on Vegetable Products obtained without Cultiva- 
tion, exhibited in the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855, 
addressed by W. J. H. to the Right Honourable Lord Stanley of 
Alderley, President of Council of Board of Trade. Pp. 182, 8vo. 
The exhibits are arranged under countries. 
1859. Filices Exoticae, or coloured figures and descriptions of 
Exotic Ferns, chiefly of such as are cultivated in the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, by W. J. H. The drawings executed by 
W. Fitch. 4to. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord John 
Manners, First Commissioner of Works. A beautiful work, with 
very full synonymy and copious dissertations. Only three species 
were previously undescribed. Lycopodium , Selaginella, and Psi- 
loium are included. The drawings are masterpieces of the artist. 
1861. A Second Century of Ferns, being figures with brief de- 
scriptions of one hundred new, rare, or imperfectly known species 
of Ferns, from various parts of the world, by W. J. H. One vol., 
imperial 8vo (1861), with plates coloured or uncoloured by 
W. Fitch. Dedicated to Dr. G. Mettenius of Leipsic. Of the 
species figured in this work forty were previously undescribed. 
The Lycopodiaceae (four species of Selaginella) and Equisetaceae 
(one species) are included. 
The British Ferns, or coloured figures and descriptions, 
with the needful analyses of the fructification and venation, of the 
Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, systematically arranged/ by 
W. J. Hooker. The drawings by Walter Fitch, F.L.S. One vol., 
royal 8vo, with sixty-six coloured plates. The Filices are sub- 
divided into six sub-orders : — (1) Polypodiaceae, fourteen genera 
and thirty-nine species ; (2) Osmundeae , one genus and species ; 
(3) Ophioglosseae, two genera and two species ; (4) Lycopodieae , 
one genus and six species ; (5) Isoeteae , one genus and two 
species ; (6) Marsileae , one genus and one species. In all twenty 
genera and 51 species. The synonymy is very fully given, and 
the discussions on critical species are generally very detailed. 
Thus for Cystopteris fragilis , Bernh., and its variant denlata, sixteen 
synonyms are given under twenty-nine citations. New Zealand 
