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010 a| 2004001299;

015 a| GBA4457402| bnb;

016 7 a| 0129376442| Uk;

020 a| 0881926671 (hardback);

035 a| (Sirsi) o54280177;

035 a| (OCoLC)54280177;

042 a| pcc;

049 a| EREE;

050 00 a| QK522b| .M67 2004;

082 00 a| 587/.32| 22;

100 1 a| Moran, Robbin Craig,d| 1956-=| ^A591520;

245 12 a| A natural history of ferns /c| Robbin C. Moran.;

260 a| Portland :b| Timber Press,c| 2004.;

300 a| 301 pages :b| illustrations (some color), maps ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-286) and index.;

505 0 a| Life Cycle of Ferns -- In Search of the Fern Seed -- Spore Shooting -- Sporadic Results -- The Asexual Revolution -- Reproduction by Buds -- Hybridization and Polyploidy -- Classification of Ferns -- The Falsely Famed Fern Allies -- The Fern Fraternity -- Genres of Genera -- At the Movies -- Fern Fossils -- Giants of the Carboniferous -- A Horsetail's Tale? -- Hangers-on from the Mesozoic -- The Fern Spike -- How Old Are Ferns? -- Adaptations by Ferns -- The Potato Fern -- How Ferns Become Trees -- Iridescent Ferns and Their Shady Behavior -- Leaf Scales and Water Uptake -- Some Quirks of Quillworts -- Bracken, the Poisoner -- Spira Mirabilis -- Fern Geography -- Robinson Crusoe?s Ferns -- Sino-American Relations -- Ferns of the Lost World -- Ferns, Flashlights, and Tertiary Forests -- Tropical Diversity -- Ferns and People -- Serpent's-Tongue Tea -- The Molesting Salvinia -- Little Nitrogen Factories -- Nardoo -- Pteridomania -- The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.;

650 0 a| Ferns.=| ^A56982;

856 41 3| Table of contentsu| http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001299.html;

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A natural history of ferns / Robbin C. Moran.

Author/creator	Moran, Robbin Craig, 1956-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Portland : Timber Press, 2004.
Description	301 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Ferns.

Contents	Life Cycle of Ferns -- In Search of the Fern Seed -- Spore Shooting -- Sporadic Results -- The Asexual Revolution -- Reproduction by Buds -- Hybridization and Polyploidy -- Classification of Ferns -- The Falsely Famed Fern Allies -- The Fern Fraternity -- Genres of Genera -- At the Movies -- Fern Fossils -- Giants of the Carboniferous -- A Horsetail's Tale? -- Hangers-on from the Mesozoic -- The Fern Spike -- How Old Are Ferns? -- Adaptations by Ferns -- The Potato Fern -- How Ferns Become Trees -- Iridescent Ferns and Their Shady Behavior -- Leaf Scales and Water Uptake -- Some Quirks of Quillworts -- Bracken, the Poisoner -- Spira Mirabilis -- Fern Geography -- Robinson Crusoe?s Ferns -- Sino-American Relations -- Ferns of the Lost World -- Ferns, Flashlights, and Tertiary Forests -- Tropical Diversity -- Ferns and People -- Serpent's-Tongue Tea -- The Molesting Salvinia -- Little Nitrogen Factories -- Nardoo -- Pteridomania -- The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-286) and index.
LCCN	2004001299
ISBN	0881926671 (hardback)

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