Historia Filicum: An Exposition of the Nature, Number, and Organography of Ferns, and Review of the Principles Upon Which Genera Are Founded, and the Systems of Classification of the Principal Authors, with a New General Arrangement; Characters of the Gen

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My Herbarium continued to increase, not only by the addition of specimens from cultivated plants, but also of dried specimens received from the principal Fern regions of the world, either obtained by direct purchase or by presentation. The collection, number ing about species - their various sizes and forms occupying large folio sheets - were, in 1866, with the exception of one-third duplicates, purchased for the Herbarium of the British Museum.

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