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This page's list covers the ferns and allies (Lycopodiopsida, Equisetopsida and Pteridopsida) found in Great Britain and Ireland. For the background to this list see parent article List of the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland .
George Samuel Jenman (1845-1902) was a British gardener and botanist.He specialized in growing and studying plants.He was superintendent of Castleton Botanical Garden, Jamaica from 1873 to 1879, and Government Botanist and superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in British Guiana (now Guyana) from 1879 to 1902.
The origins and early history of the BPS at the time of "Pteridomania" is described in the book The Victorian Fern Craze. [2] The BPS celebrated its centenary in 1991; amongst other things, it was marked by the publication of the book, A World of Ferns. [3] The British Pteridological Society is a registered charity: No. 1092399. [4]
Fern allies and ferns were sometimes grouped together as division Pteridophyta. [1] Another traditional classification scheme of living plants is as follows (here, the first three classes are the "fern allies"): Kingdom: Plantae. Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants) Class Lycopodiopsida, clubmosses and related plants (fern-allies)
An expert on ferns and fern allies from the British Isles, he served as Curator of the Society of Apothecaries Garden from 1848 to 1887. In 1855 he authored The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland . The standard author abbreviation T.Moore is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name .
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1855–1873, 6 vols. (Originally only 5 volumes, published 1855–1866, as The Flowering Plants of Great Britain; the 6th volume, on grasses, sedges, and ferns, was added in 1873).
Marian Sarah Ogilvie Farquharson, FLS, FRMS (née Ridley, 2 July 1846 – 20 April 1912) was a British naturalist and women's rights activist.The first female Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (although not permitted to attend meetings), Farquharson is best remembered for her campaign of women rights to full fellowship of learned societies.
Thelypteris noveboracensis (New York fern) Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive fern) Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken) Dennstaedtia punctilobula (Hay-scented fern). The Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, consists of about 1,900 acres (7.7 km 2) of land in Baltimore County, Maryland, USA.