Pteridology in the New Millennium: NBRI Golden Jubilee Volume in Honour of Professor B.K. Nayar

List of Contributors. Foreword. Editors' Note. Preface I. Preface II. Preface III. Preface IV. General Papers. 1. Professor Bala Krishnan Nayar: A biographical sketch; S. Chandra. 2. The Pteridology Laboratory, N.B.R.I., Lucknow (India); M. Srivastava. Systematics. 3. Taxonomy and biogeography of Indian pteridophytes; G. Panigrahi. 4. Phylogenetics, biogeograpgy and classification of the woodwardioid ferns (Blechnaceae); R. Cranfill, M. Kato. 5. Review of the family Woodsiaceae (Diels) Herter of Eurasia; A.I. Shmakov. 6. An Introduction to the pteridophytes of Hainan Island, South China; Xian-Chun Zhang. 7. Notes on new or interesting Asplenium species from Western Asia, including comments on Ching & Wu (1985), and Fraser-Jenkins (1992) Reliquiae Reichsteinianae 1; R.L.L. Viane, T. Reichstein. 8. Diversity and distribution patterns of Aspleniaceae in Brazil; L. da Silva Sylvestre, P.G. Windisch. 9. Two new species of Cyathea from North-Eastern India; T. Bandyopadhyay, T. Sen, U. Sen. 10. Distributional study of the genus Cyrtomium C. Presl (Dryopteridaceae); Jin Mei-Lu, Xiao Cheng. 11. Taxonomic studies on the family Sinopteridaceae and the genus Ctenitopsis (Tectariaceae) from Hainan Island, China; Gang-Min Zhang, Shi-Yong Dong, Xian-Chun Zhang, Shu-Gang Lu. 12. Valuable and noteworthy Chinese fern specimens preserved at the herbarium of Singapore Botanic Gardens (SING); Su Gong Wu, B. Ching Tan. 13. Pteridophytic flora of Northern part of Bihar (India) adjacent to Indo-Nepal border; A. Kumari, R. Bahadur Srivastava. Morphology, Anatomy and Cytology. 14. Studies on the ChineseSelaginellaceae-V: Observations on the forliar epidermis of Selaginella Beauv. from Hainan Island in China; Ping Yang, Xiang-Chung Zhang. 15. Morphological observations on the co-occurring geophytes Isoëtes duriei Bory (Lycophyta, Isoëtaceae) and Romulea columnae Sebast. et Mauri (Anthophyta, Iridaceae); A. Troìa, E. Oddo, E. Bellini. 16. Cytomorphological studies on some Indian population of Isoëtes coromandelina L.f.; G. Krishna Srivastava, M. Rai, M. Srivastava. 17. Studies on the morpho-taxonomy of Indian vittarioid ferns; J. Bikas Bhandari, R. Mukhopadhyay. 18. Morphological and cytological variations of Japanese Dryopteris varia group (Dryopteridaceae); Su-Juan Lin, M. Kato, K. Iwatsuki. Ecology and Floristics. 19. Environmentally related demography: field studies on Isoëtes lacustris L. (Lycophyta, Isoëtaceae) in Europe; M. Vöge. 20. The vertical distributions of live and dead fern spores in the soil of a semi-natural woodland in Southeast Scotland and their implications for spore movement in the formation of soil spore banks; L.M. Esteves, A.F. Dyer. 21. Species richness of pteridophytes in natural versus man-made lowland forest in Malaysia and Singapore; F. Binti Yusuf, B. Ching Tan, I.M. Turner. 22. The taxonomy and ecology of the pteridophytes of Mt. Iraya and vicinity, Batan Island, Batanes Province, Northern Philippines; J. Fenete Barcelona. 23. Some aspects of the fern flora (Filicopsida) of the Netherlands; P. Bremer. 24. Demographic studies of homosporous fern populations in South Siberia; I.I. Gureyeva. 25. Eco-morphological