Nature-Printed British Ferns
by Thomas Moore
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217024938
Paperback|9780217024938
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. CLASSIFICATION OF FERNS. Nomenclature And Arrangement: In what sense important?Characters employed for generic distinctions?Venation as a generic character?Mr. Smith's proposed arrangement: Eremobrya and Desmobrya?Their peculiar structure?Mr. Newman's scheme?The principal groups of Ferns, and their characteristics? Classification proposed to be adopted. This is a most important branch of our subject; for without something like a correct notion of the principles and the characters on which the classification of Ferns is founded, it is impossible to have more than a vague and uncertain knowledge of their nomenclature. The species of Ferns inhabiting Great Britain being few in number, they afford but little aid in illustrating the principles on which pteridologists depend in the naming and arrangement of the Fern family; so that to give an intelligible view of the subject, we must briefly sketch the classification of Ferns in general. Though in some sense important, the Nomenclature or naming, whether scientific or popular, of natural objects, has, it is always to be remembered, no other value than that of enabling different observers to recognise the same objects, and to impart to each other information respecting them; and Arrangement or Classification has no other importance than that of facilitating these objects. Hence, it is as a means to an end, that we refer to classification as an important branch of our subject, that end being the identification of genera and species, the main object of such identification being the intercommunication of information concerning them. It is not for a moment to be supposed, that the mere naming and the classifying of the objects which engage the attention of scientificmen, are the aim and purpose of study, as some se...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217024938 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217024939 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 174 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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