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THE present work will be a useful and acceptable addition to ourstock of fern-books. It contains descriptions and plates of all the ferns and fern-allies known to exist in Africa south of the tropic of Capricorn, the same area which is included by Harvey and Sonder in their “Flora Capensis,” three volumes of which, including the orders from Ranunculaceæ to Campanulaceæ, have been published. The author won the Jubilee gold medal given by the North of Scotland Horticultural Association, and for many years has filled the post of curator of the Botanic Gardens at King William's Town. Several years ago Mr. Sim published an illustrated handbook of the ferns of Kaffraria, and now he has extended his area so as to include the whole of South Temperate Africa.
The Ferns of South Africa, containing Descriptions and Figures of the Ferns and Fern-allies of South Africa.
By Thomas R. Sim, 275 pp., 159 plates. (Cape Town and Johannesberg: J. C. Juta and Co. London: Wm. Wesley and Son, 1892.)
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BAKER, J. The Ferns of South Africa, containing Descriptions and Figures of the Ferns and Fern-allies of South Africa. Nature 47, 291 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047291a0
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