BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Jermy, C & Camus, J., 1991

The Illustrated Field Guide to ferns and Allied Plants of the British Isles

Field keys to genera and species, with individual species accounts which include confirmatory microscope details where appropriate. There are detailed accounts of Polypodium and the Dryopteris affinis group, the two areas that give most trouble. Hybrids are listed with notes on their rarity and distribution but not covered in detail.

Publisher Natural History Museum Publications
Pages 194
ISBN 0-565-01172-3
Coverage All the British species known at the time.
Illustrations Pen and ink drawings.
Identify With x8 or x10 hand lens (also useful to examine under a Compound Microscope).

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Taxonomic Scope

PTERIDOPHYTA (ferns and allies) Identification Current

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