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INTEREST in the British native flora and in the study of botany in general is so admirably stimulated and encouraged by the excellent series of exhibits in the National Museum of Wales that the descriptive handbook of Welsh ferns by Mr. H. A. Hyde, keeper of botany, and Mr. A. E. Wade, assistant in the Department, is assured of a wide welcome (Welsh Ferns: a Descriptive Handbook. By H. A. Hyde and A. E. Wade. Pp. x+132+11 plates. Cardiff: National Museum of Wales and the Press Board of the University of Wales, 1940. 5s.). Like its two predecessors dealing with the botany of Wales, published by the Museum, it is a most useful volume, and both text and illustrations leave little to be desired. The introduction conveys all that the student needs to understand the fern's life-history, and in the more detailed descriptive portion the keys and descriptions, aided by the clear text figures skilfully drawn by Miss E. A. Jenkins, should enable anyone to identify and discover all there is of interest in our native ferns. Now that so many name changes have taken place, one would have welcomed the inclusion of some of the old names—now synonyms—with which older botanists are more familiar.
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Ferns of Wales. Nature 146, 743–744 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146743c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146743c0