Emma Jones (naturalist)

Emma Jones (née Buchanan) (1835 – after 1881) was a New Zealand author, amateur fern collector and painter.

[2] Eliza Stack's journal records that almost as soon as they had arrived in New Zealand, a Dr Prendergast helped Jones to identify ferns she collected from caves at Three Kings.

Jones was the author of the Handbook to the Ferns of New Zealand, chiefly compiled from Dr Hooker's "Flora Novae Zelandiae", Sir Wm.

The 32 page pamphlet was sold for two shillings and six pence to raise funds for expenses incurred in the erection of St. Mary's Church, Parnell, Auckland.

[4] Hooker's Handbook of the New Zealand Flora (1864) references the following Jones' collections: Todea africana at Hokianga; Adiantum formosum at Kaipara and Whangarei; Loxsoma cunninghamii at Waitemata; Gymnogramme leptophylla on the summit of Mount Wellington; Hypolepis distans at Manakau Heads; Loxsoma cunninghamii at Coromandel; Nephrodium molle at Rotomahana; Aspidium cystostegia, Cystopteris fragilis, Lomaria elongata, Lomaria vulcanica and Marattia salicina in the Mt Egmont Range; Hymenophyllum aeruginosum at Wellington; Lomaria vulcanica at Nelson.