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	Click picture to view sample pages.	Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia Lloyd H. Snyder, Jr., and James G. Bruce Sometimes a simple, well-done line drawing provides a clearer representation than a color photograph. Perhaps it's because there are fewer distractions — a good artist can direct your eye towards important features. Likewise, sometimes information is more easily absorbed when it is presented, well, sort of in a modular format. Rather than force the reader to sift through pages of text seeking a specific fact, this book provides what amounts to an information-filled checklist: name, rootstock, fronds, stipe, rachis, blade, pinnae, sori, habitat, range — each feature is carefully described. A Georgia map displays the counties in which the fern has been documented, and a "remarks" paragraph concludes each page. The University of Georgia Press.
	Click picture to view sample pages.	Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America Boughton Cobb, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and Cheryl Lowe for the New England Wild Flower Society Ordinarily a manual targeted so definitively outside our region (see map) would not be recommended, but this one is. The book includes so many of our fern and fern ally species, its visual key is so clearly presented, the plants are arranged in such a logical way, and the diagnostic characters are so well illustrated and discussed — that this guide needs to be in your daypack. Sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, and the National Audubon Society; published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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		Native Ferns, Moss & Grasses William Cullina Description coming. New England Wild Flower Society.
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	Click picture to view sample pages.	100 Native Forage Grasses in 11 Southern States Horace L. Leithead, Lewis L. Yarlett, & Thomas N. Shiflet Nature has been at work for thousands of years selecting and developing the native plants most suitable for each kind of soil and climate. This handbook is designed to give a better understanding of the many values of native grasses, including erosion control, forage production, roadside plantings and recreation areas subject to heavy foot traffic, and for beautification programs. The book includes an excellently illustrated explanation of the principal parts of a grass plant, and drawings of characteristic parts of each of the 100 native grasses are included to aid in identification. Below the drawings is an outline map showing each grass's areas of importance within the 11 southern states. A reproduction of US Dept. of Agriculture Handbook No. 389 (current scientific names have been added when needed), reprinted by the SC Native Plant Society, and available through them: PO Box 491, Norris, SC 29667.
	Click picture to view sample pages.	How to Identify Grasses & Grasslike Plants H.D. Harrington Description coming. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press.
		Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the United States Edward Knobel Concise descriptions and accurate line drawings of over 370 of the most common species, with an emphasis on wild plants in the eastern and central United States. Dover Publications.
		Manual of the Grasses of the United States A.S. Hitchcock, revised by Agnes Chase The only complete manual of US grasses available. It describes all 1398 species known to exist in the country at the time of its publication in 1950. 1199 line drawings. Two volumes. Dover Publications.
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