THE FERNWORT PAPERS - HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

摘要

Publications on pteridology, especially those on the taxonomy of North American Isoeetes and on the distribution and ecology of the rare American hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium L. var. americanum (Fernald) Kartesz & Gandhi, often cite papers or scientific names published in Fernwort Papers. For decades I was unable to locate or even to identify this publication. Citations from Fernwort Papers often contain page numbers only, no volume number, as with a book rather than a journal. Otherwise, however, these citations are not in the format used for a book, as they do not include the name of the editor, publisher, or city in which it was published. In other citations the volume number 2 precedes the page numbers for the same papers or plant names, suggesting that Fernwort Papers might be a journal. Yet it is not listed in the Union List of Serials or in Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum. What, I wondered, is or was Fernwort Papers? Were botanical names validly published therein? Are any copies extant?