This user-friendly field guide describes and illustrates the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails native to Britain and Ireland, giving comprehensive entries for over 100 species and hybrids. Each entry gives a brief "pen picture" which outlines the key features of each species, supported by clear and informative frond silhouette illustrations. Valuable additional information on distribution, ecology and biology is provided in the form of "Field Notes".
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'It is heartening in these days, when so many authors assume the 'amateur' is incapable of serious study, that an enthusiastic expert has carried on the splendid tradition of helping the informed amateur naturalist as well as the professional botanist - and given people a tool to take them further into a fascinating subject.' Trevor James, BBC Wildlife
'... invaluable book ... clear and succinct accounts of every species.' Trevor James, BBC Wildlife
'... enlarged, expanded and greatly improved ... photographs which are relevant, informative and, frequently, beautiful ... The second edition is a great improvement on the excellent first, and is accessible by the specialist and beginner alike, both of whom will have much to gain from reference to, or browsing in, Dr Page's book.' James Merryweather, New Phytology
'This book is a good and valuable read and it is the most comprehensive book on British and Irish ferms. As these Isles harbour a wealth of species the book is of great interest to fern enthusiasts from abroad. If you do not have the first edition, this book is a must.' J. C. Vogel, Fern Gazette
' ... this is still clearly the best book available on British pteridophytes.' F. J. Rumsey, Annals of Botany
'Ferns of Britain and Ireland maintains its place as the best book on ferns in Britain.' Edinburgh Journal of Botany
'... invaluable book ... clear and succinct accounts of every species.' Trevor James, BBC Wildlife
'... enlarged, expanded and greatly improved ... photographs which are relevant, informative and, frequently, beautiful ... The second edition is a great improvement on the excellent first, and is accessible by the specialist and beginner alike, both of whom will have much to gain from reference to, or browsing in, Dr Page's book.' James Merryweather, New Phytology
'This book is a good and valuable read and it is the most comprehensive book on British and Irish ferms. As these Isles harbour a wealth of species the book is of great interest to fern enthusiasts from abroad. If you do not have the first edition, this book is a must.' J. C. Vogel, Fern Gazette
' ... this is still clearly the best book available on British pteridophytes.' F. J. Rumsey, Annals of Botany
'Ferns of Britain and Ireland maintains its place as the best book on ferns in Britain.' Edinburgh Journal of Botany
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This user-friendly field-guide gives comprehensive information for over 100 species and hybrids of ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails. Key features for successful identification are supported by clear silhouette illustrations and field notes. Many improved silhouettes have been prepared for the new edition and additional material on difficult groups has been included. The accessible style and format of the successful first edition has been retained, making it suitable for amateur and professional alike.
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A small to moderate-sized, delicate-looking fern, divided into numerous, small fan-shaped segments, borne on very slender, wiry black stipes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
confirmation plants, frond stages, frond outline, main stem internodes, frond habit, frond colour, frond texture, abortive spores, main stem sheaths, technical confirmation, frond dissection, expanding fronds, sympatric portions, ascending fronds, wintergreen fern, wiry stipes, native pteridophytes, sooty black spores, pinna pair, lowermost pinnae, spaced pinnae, pinna midribs, good spores, most fronds, pinna tips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Identification Plants, May Jun, Jly Aug, Channel Islands, Mid Perthshire, Scottish Highlands, North America, Variation Plants, Brittle Bladder-fern, Lake District, Isle of Arran, Holly Fern, Outer Hebrides, Green Spleenwort, Herb Robert, Wall Rue, Beech Fern, Broad Buckler-fern, Canary Islands, Common Maidenhair Spleenwort, Identification Fronds, Black Spleenwort, Isle of Skye, Limestone Oak-fern, Occurrence Known New!
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A small to moderate-sized, delicate-looking fern, divided into numerous, small fan-shaped segments, borne on very slender, wiry black stipes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
confirmation plants, frond stages, frond outline, main stem internodes, frond habit, frond colour, frond texture, abortive spores, main stem sheaths, technical confirmation, frond dissection, expanding fronds, sympatric portions, ascending fronds, wintergreen fern, wiry stipes, native pteridophytes, sooty black spores, pinna pair, lowermost pinnae, spaced pinnae, pinna midribs, good spores, most fronds, pinna tips Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Identification Plants, May Jun, Jly Aug, Channel Islands, Mid Perthshire, Scottish Highlands, North America, Variation Plants, Brittle Bladder-fern, Lake District, Isle of Arran, Holly Fern, Outer Hebrides, Green Spleenwort, Herb Robert, Wall Rue, Beech Fern, Broad Buckler-fern, Canary Islands, Common Maidenhair Spleenwort, Identification Fronds, Black Spleenwort, Isle of Skye, Limestone Oak-fern, Occurrence Known New!
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- British Isles (Real Exploring Guides) by Cimino Publishing Group on 4 pages
- Pteridology in Perspective: Pterdophyta Symposium '95 Proceedings of the Holttum Memorial Pteridophyte Symphosium, Kew, 1995 by J H Camus in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- British Isles: A Photographic Journey by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Lake District (Short Walks) by Terry Marsh on page 502
- History of the British Flora (Cambridge Science Classics) by Godwin in Back Matter
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- British Plant Communities: Volume 5, Maritime Communities and Vegetation of Open Habitats by J. S. Rodwell in Back Matter
- Garden Ferns (Plantfinder's Guide Series) by Martin Rickard in Back Matter
- British Plant Communities by John S. Rodwell in Back Matter
- Peterson Field Guide to Ferns: Northeastern and Central North America, 2nd Edition by Boughton Cobb in Back Matter
- Ferns for American Gardens by John T. Mickel in Back Matter
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