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A HANDSOME book, consisting of etchings, with accompanying letter-press descriptions, oi sixty-eight species or varieties of ferns, natives of the northern part of the American continent. The drawings are well executed and characteristic, giving a faithful idea of the general habit of the fern, though without any enlarged details; and the accuracy of the descriptions is insured by borrowing them from Gray's “Manual” or Eaton's “Ferns of North America.” Of the species depicted, including all that are natives of the Northern United States and Canada, twenty-two, or about one-third, are also natives of the British Isles. The southern limit for the volume appears to be Virginia and Kentucky. The volume is an elegant ornament to the drawing-room table.
Fern Etchings: Illustrating all the Species of Ferns Indigenous to the North-Eastern United States and Canada.
Second Edition. By John Williamson. (Louisville, Ky., 1879.)
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Fern Etchings: Illustrating all the Species of Ferns Indigenous to the North-Eastern United States and Canada . Nature 22, 168 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022168a0
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