Incorporating over thirty years of field sightings with recent scientific advances, Lloyd Snyder and James Bruce present a complete illustrated guide--with descriptions, distribution maps, identification keys, and name derivations--to the more than one hundred species of ferns and fern allies to be found in Georgia. A basic source of the professional botanist, this guide should also prove useful to naturalists, conservationists, garden-club members, and hikers.

A field guide to the ferns of coastal Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. Ferns are arranged for quick identification, and detailed illustrations highlight distinctive features of each species. Lists range, family, Latin and common names, and describes folklore, legends and uses. Paperback edition ($11.95) not seen. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR