The Fern Lover's Companion Part 18

DODGE, RAYNAL. The Ferns and Fern Allies of New England--very small volume, now out of print. W.N. Clute & Co. 1904.

DRUERY, CHARLES T. British Ferns and Their Varieties. Routledge & Son.

London.

EASTMAN, HELEN. New England Ferns and Their Common Allies. Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boston, 1904. Out of print.

EATON, DANIEL C. The Ferns of North America. 2 vols. 1879-80. S.E. Ca.s.sino, Salem. Drawings by J.H. Emerton and C.E. Faxon.

EATON, A.A. Specialist in Fern Allies. Prepared Equisetum and Isoetes for Gray's Manual, 7th ed. 1908.

GILBERT, BENJ. D. List of North American Pteridophytes. 1901. Utica, N.Y.

HERVEY, ALPHAEUS B. Wayside Flowers and Ferns. Page & Co. Boston, 1899.

HEMSLEY, ALFRED. Book of Fern Culture. John Lane. London, 1908.

HIBBARD, s.h.i.+RLEY. The Fern Garden. Groombridge & Sons. 5 Paternoster Row, London. 1869.

HOOKER, SIR W.J. Genera Filic.u.m. Large 8vo. London, 1842. Contains fine plates which include all American genera. Costs about $25.

Species Filic.u.m. 5 vols. 8vo. London, 1846-64. Vol. II contains seventeen and Vol. Ill contains two plates of American ferns with descriptions of more species. Cost about $50.

HOOKER, SIR W.J., & BAKER. Synopsis Filic.u.m 2d ed. 1874. 8vo. Describes all ferns then known, including the American species. Has also figures ill.u.s.trating each genus. Costs about $10.

LOWE, EDWARD J. Ferns British and Exotic. 9 vols. 8vo. Bell & Daldy.

London, 1868. 550 plates, some very poor. Some American ferns are represented. "The descriptions," says John Robinson, "are worthless, and the synonymy is often incorrect."

MAXON, WILLIAM R. A List of Ferns and Fern Allies of North America, north of Mexico, etc. National Museum, 23:619-651. 1901.

Numerous Monographs and Notes on American Ferns in current magazines.

Studies of Tropical American Ferns. United States National Herbarium, 17:541+.

Pteridophyta (excepting Equisitaceae and Isoetaceae) of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. In Britton and Brown, Ill.u.s.trated Flora, etc., ed. 2, pp. 1-54. 1913. New York.

MEEHAN, THOMAS. Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States. Boston, 1878-9.

MOORE, THOMAS. Nature-printed British Ferns. 2 vols. London, 1859.

PARSONS, FRANCES T. How to Know the Ferns. Charles Scribner's Sons. New York, 1899.

PRATT, ANNE. The Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies. F. Warne & Co.

London. No date.

REDFIELD, JOHN. Geographical Distribution of the Ferns of North America.

Torrey Bulletin, VI, 1-7. (1875).

RHODORA. Journal of the New England Botanical Club. January, 1899, to date.

ROBINSON, JOHN. Ferns in Their Homes and Ours. S.E. Ca.s.sino. Salem, 1878.

Out of print.

SACHS, JULIUS. Text Book of Botany. (Translated.) Macmillan & Co. London.

8vo.

SLOSSON, MARGARET. How Ferns Grow. Henry Holt & Co. New York. 1906. Out of print.

SMALL, JOHN K. Ferns of Tropical Florida. New York, 1918.

SMITH, JOHN. Historia Filic.u.m. London, 1875. Amply ill.u.s.trated, reliable.

STEP, EDWARD. Wayside and Woodland Ferns. F. Warne & Co. London, 1908.

TIDESTROM, IVAR. Elysium Marianum. Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.

UNDERWOOD, LUCIEN M. Our Native Ferns and Their Allies. Henry Holt & Co.

Edition 6. 1900. Valuable. Out of print.

WATERS, CAMPBELL E. Ferns. Henry Holt & Co. 1903. Out of print. Scarce.

WEATHERBY, C.A. Changes in the Nomenclature of the Gray's Manual of Ferns.

Important article in the Rhodora of October, 1919.

WILLIAMSON, JOHN. Ferns of Kentucky. J.P. Morton & Co. Louisville, Ky.

1878.

Fern Etchings. J.P. Morton & Co. 1879. Both out of print.

WOOLSON, GRACE A. Ferns and How to Grow Them. Doubleday, Page & Co. New York, 1909.

WRIGHT, MABEL O. Flowers and Ferns in Their Haunts. Macmillan & Co. New York, 1901.

[Ill.u.s.tration: "Fringing the stream at every turn, Swung low the waving fronds of fern."

WHITTIER.]

TIMES OF THE FRUITING OF FERNS

"Ah! well I mind the calendar Faithful through a thousand years Of the painted race of flowers."--EMERSON.

Compiled from Dodge's "Ferns and Fern Allies of New England"

May 25. Little Grape Fern. Interrupted Fern.

May 30. Cinnamon Fern.

June 5. Ostrich Fern.

June 10. Frondosa variety of Cinnamon Fern.