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Buy Now	The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants (more) »rank: 822300 by: D. J. Mabberley : :The Plant-Book is widely accepted as an essential reference text for anyone growing or writing about plants. In over 20,000 entries this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plant (including gymnosperms) plus ferns and other pteridophytes, combining taxonomic details with invaluable information on English names and uses. In this new edition each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature and over 2,500 new entries have been added, ensuring that The Plant-Book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.	Buy Now	Oaxaca Journal (National Geographic Directions) (more) »rank: 280466 by: Oliver Sacks : :The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind—a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ability to survive and adapt in many climates.Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history ...
Buy Now	Peterson Field Guide to Ferns, Second Edition: Northeastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides (R)) (more) »rank: 168497 by: Boughton Cobb, Cheryl Lowe, Elizabeth Farnsworth : :Since 1956, when the late Boughton Cobb wrote his field guide to ferns, this book, unchanged in all the years since, has become the classic on the subject. Now the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS) has completely updated the text and added 100 color photographs. The incredibly beautiful full-page line drawings by the late Laura Louise Foster have been reproduced from the original art. New subjects include a section on habitats and conservation, a glossary of botanical terms, and a chapter on gardening with ferns. The New England Wild Flower Society is the nation's oldest organization devoted to the conservation of ...	Buy Now	The Ferns of Florida: A Reference and Field Guide (Reference and Field Guides) (Reference and Field Guides) (more) »rank: 1231826 by: Gil Nelson : :The first field guide in 25 years to treat Florida's amazing variety of ferns. Color plates feature more than 200 images, some of which include rare species never before illustrated in color. Includes notes on each species' growth form and habit, as well as general remarks about its botanical and common names, unique characteristics, garden use, and history in Florida.
Buy Now	Garden Ferns (Plantfinder's Guides Series) (more) »rank: 1237141 by: Martin Rickard : :The Plantfinder's Guide to Garden Ferns shows just how easily ferns can be grown in almost every garden. Martin Rickard's infectious enthusiasm shines through in his lucid text and will persuade every gardener that ferns are what their garden needs most.	Buy Now	Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia (more) »rank: 2269636 by: Lloyd H., Jr. Snyder, James G. Bruce : :The Plantfinder's Guide to Garden Ferns shows just how easily ferns can be grown in almost every garden. Martin Rickard's infectious enthusiasm shines through in his lucid text and will persuade every gardener that ferns are what their garden needs most.
Buy Now	A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns (more) »rank: 1796821 by: J. C. Willis : :Willis's Dictionary is a famous publication in the world of botany and horticulture. It is a comprehensive and indispensable reference to the generic and family names of flowering plants and ferns. The entries attempt to cover all published generic names from 1753 onwards and published family names from 1789, together with a number of supra- and infra-familial taxa where these have not been based on family or generic names. The generic names include many variant spellings and inter-generic hybrids. Brief characters of subfamilies are usually given. The treatment of the families and higher taxa of the Pteridophyta is based on the classification ...	Buy Now	Developmental Biology of Fern Gametophytes (Developmental and Cell Biology Series) (more) »rank: 1838351 by: V. Raghavan : :This volume outlines all of the phases of the gametophytic generation in ferns such as spore germination and sex organ initiation, from how the gametophyte grows to how it eventually initiates the sporophytic generation. The book discusses these stages in morphological, physiological, cytological and biochemical terms, and, by combining all these perspectives, presents a new view of this interesting developmental process that sheds light on general plant development. Developmental biologists will find this book a useful resource.
Buy Now	Ferns of Hawai'i (more) »rank: 1598229 by: Kathy Valier : :This volume outlines all of the phases of the gametophytic generation in ferns such as spore germination and sex organ initiation, from how the gametophyte grows to how it eventually initiates the sporophytic generation. The book discusses these stages in morphological, physiological, cytological and biochemical terms, and, by combining all these perspectives, presents a new view of this interesting developmental process that sheds light on general plant development. Developmental biologists will find this book a useful resource.	Buy Now	The Ferns of Britain and Ireland (more) »rank: 7297521 by: Page : :This field-guide gives information for over 100 species and hybrids of ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails. Many illustrations have been prepared for this new edition and additional material on difficult groups has been included.