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A field guide to the ferns and their related families of northeastern and central North America : with a section on species also found in the British Isles and western Europe

Title
A field guide to the ferns and their related families of northeastern and central North America : with a section on species also found in the British Isles and western Europe / Cobb Boughton ; illustrated by Laura Louise Foster.
Author
Cobb, Boughton
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

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Additional Authors
Foster, Laura Louise
Description
xviii, 281 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
Summary
A handbook of ferns and their related families in the North American continent based on visual identification.
Series Statement
The Peterson field guide series ; 10
Uniform Title
Peterson field guide series ; 10.
Subject
  • Ferns > North America > Identification
  • Ferns
  • Ferns
  • Pteridophyta (division)
  • Farnpflanzen
  • Pteridophyta
  • Varens
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Europe
  • North America
  • USA > Mittlerer Westen
  • USA > Nordoststaaten
Genre/Form
  • Identification
  • field guides.
  • Field guides
  • Führer.
  • Field guides.
  • Guides d'identification.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [263]-267.
Contents
Morphology of a fern -- How to use keys in filed guide -- Keys for quick visual identification -- Life cycle of a fern -- Place of ferns and their allies in the plant kingdom -- Genealogical tree -- True ferns -- Genus dryopteris -- Genus gymnocarpium -- Genus thelypteris -- Genus asplenium -- Genus camptosorus -- Genus athyrium -- Genus dennstaedtia -- Genus matteucccia -- Genus onoclea -- Genus woodwardia -- Genus polystichum -- Genus Polypodium -- Genus pteridium -- Water ferns -- Succulent ferns -- Horsetails -- Clubmosses, ground pines, running pines -- Selaginellas -- Quillworts -- Ferns and their allies -- Ferns in the flower garden -- Ferns and their allies.
ISBN
  • 0395194318
  • 9780395194317
  • 0395194138 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
55010024
OCLC
  • ocm01038937
  • 1038937
  • SCSB-309797
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library