Page:Flora Hongkongensis.djvu/562

 NEW WORK on BRITISH FERNS by Sir W.J. HOOKER. In Sixteen Numbers (uniform with 'Curtis' Botanical Magazine'), each containing Four Coloured Plates, price 2s. 6d., of Sir W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew. THE DRAWINGS BY W. FITCH, F.L.S.

Notwithstanding the many publications that have appeared of late years upon the Ferns of the British Isles, a new Work, such as we have the pleasure to announce, by Sir W. J. Hooker, supported by the talents of his unrivalled artist, Mr. Fitch, will be acceptable both to Cultivators of British Ferns and to Collectors of them for the Herbarium. It is intended to arrange them in Sixty-four Plates of Coloured Figures, with the needful Analyses of Fructification, so as to exhibit the Characters of the Genus as well as of the Species; and the Descriptions will be entirely in English.

The Work will be issued in Monthly Numbers (No. 1 on the Ist of January), and will be com- ^ pleted in Sixteen Numbers, each of Four Plates, price 2s. M. ; making £2 for tlie complete Volume. LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. NEW WORK on GARDEN FERNS by Sir W. J. HOOKER. In Monthly Numbers (uniform with 'Curtis' Botanical Magazine'), each containioig Four Coloured Plates, price 2s. 6d., of GARDEN FERNS. Sir W. J. HOOKER, K.H., D.C.L. Oxon., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of France, and Director of the Eoyal Gardens of Kew. THE DRAWINGS BY W. FITCH, F.L.S. The attention of horticulturists having been increasingly directed of late years to this lovely tribe of plants, than which few are more easy of cultivation, and, as is now clearly demonstrated, few more easily imported from distant regions of the globe, it is intended to issue a special Work for their Illustration and Descrij)tion, uniform in size and style with. ' Curtis' Botanical Maga- zine.' As it may be considered a supplement to that work, the comparatively few Ferns among the 5,200 Specie's of Plants there Figured and Described, will not be repeated ; nor will those so lieautifully and faithfully depicted by Mr. Fitch in the recently-completed volume on Exotic Ferns.* The rich Collections of the Eoyal Gardens of Kew would alone afibrd ample materials for such a work ; but it is by no means intended to be exclusive. Contributions of good samples of species of great rarity, hitherto imdescribed, will be thankfully received and fully acknowledged. The greatest pains will be taken to give accurate delineations, and such analyses as the Species or Genus requu'es, accompanied by such descriptions as may render each individual as clear to the mind of the Student or Cultivator as the subject and the size of the page will admit. The Author, while he willingly acknowledges the great difficulty of defining the exact limits of Genera and Species in plants so notorious for their sportive character as are the Ferns, con- fesses that he has no sympathy with those who do much to increase that difficulty by the needless mutiplication of both Genera and Species. Synonyms and references to standard authors will be carefully recorded. A Number, consisting of Four Coloured Plates, will appear on the 1st of January, 1861, and be continued Monthly, price 2s. 6d. Gardens of Kew. By Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., etc. Handsome Quarto, 100 Coloured Plates, £6. Us. Published by Lovell Reeve.
 * 'Pilices Exoticse,' being Figures and Descriptions of Exotic Ferns cultivated, chiefly, in the Royal

LONDON: LOVELL REEVE, 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.