Written by the New York Botanical Garden's fern curator, John Mickel, and Alan Smith, a curator at UC Berkeley, a monumental and comprehensive treatment of the pteridophytes of Mexico, which, with 124 genera and a broad range of habitats, is "one of the most exciting pteridophytic floras in the world." Nothing short of amazing, this volume describes over a thousand taxa, with complete keys, maps, and almost 300 pages of line drawings.