Index Filicum : A Synopsis, With Characters, of the Genera, and an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns, With Synonymes, References, &C., &C (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Index Filicum: A Synopsis, With Characters, of the Genera, and an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns, With Synonymes, References, &C., &C

It will be obvious, that in order to render this informa tion accessible as speedily as practicable, a thorough criticism of the synonymy could not be attempted, for this would have involved the actual labour of a complete Species mm, and could not indeed have been accomplished, Without long de laying the publication of the list. Free use has consequently been made of the statements, critical or otherwise, of those botanists who have devoted attention to the subj ect, the whole being blended with such personal information as the author has been able to bring to bear on the subject. The work is conse quently to be regarded as, mainly, a. Compilation. It has how ever been the endeavour both of the author-and the publisher, to render it, as such, not only useful and readily available, but as free from error as possible. To this end, the greater number of the references given. Have been actually examined;(3)

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