British ferns and their allies : comprising the ferns, club-mosses, pepperworts, & horsetails /
Abstract
This little volume, which is virtually an abridgment of the Fojiular History of British Ferns, having been provided for the use of beginners in the study of these charming wild plants, it has been made an especial object to avoid technicalities as far as possible, and to afford plain, and, it is to be hoped, easily understood, descriptions of the plants.The varieties which are now known to occur among our wild Ferns, are so numerous, that only a few of the more strikinq; have been noticed.A full enurae- ration of them would have taken up much space, and would only have distracted the attention of the learner from the species which it is important he should first become acquainted with.Being intended as a first book, many details of structure, of distribution, &c., have also been omitted with the view of simplifying the main features of the Kubjcct.When these have been well mastered, the inquirer will meet with additional useful information iv