3832 MR. RICHARD SPRUCE’S HEPATICE ELLIOTTIANE. 
and within two or three days after he wrote these last words he 
was taken from us. He intended no doubt to cite the chief 
papers that treat of the Hepatics of the West Indies; and for 
the benefit of those who are interested in the paper the following 
notes are added. 
Montagne’s Cuban list contained 32 species; and some years 
later additions to it were found among the hepatics gathered by 
the American traveller Charles Wright, which were named by 
Gottsche and distributed without numbers by Asa Gray after 
the collector’s death in 1885. From Jamaica 38 species are 
recorded in H. Boswell’s list in the ‘ Journal of Botany,’ 1887, 
p- 49; and 4 more occur in a paper by Lindenberg and Hampe 
in ‘ Linnea,’ 1851, pp. 300, 640. From San Domingo 34 species 
gathered by Eggers are given by Stephani in ‘ Hedwigia,’ 1888, 
p- 299, and in the same paper 6 are mentioned as coming from 
Dominica, 3 of which do not occur in Mr. Elliott’s collections. 
The French Antilles—Guadeloupe and Martinique—which are 
the neighbouring islands to Dominica, have been searched in 
late years and, in M. Bescherelle’s recent list in ‘ Journal de 
Botanique,’ 1893, pp. 174, 188, present a total of 148 species ; 
but they will probably prove more fruitful than this, for their 
united area—about 1100 sq. miles—is more than double that of 
Dominica and St. Vincent, which is only 415 sq. miles and yet 
has produced, as will be seen in the following list, 162 species, of 
which 80 are new, and in addition to which several other species 
are likely to be found by future collectors. The results which 
have been attained in other islands, such as Trinidad, Barbados, 
and St. Kitts, must be sought in the ‘Synopsis Hepaticarum,’ 
1844-7, and in the series of monographs of genera which are 
being produced with such industry by Herr Stephani. 
Mr. Spruce’s paper has been recast so as to bring the list of 
species, the descriptions, and the notes into one series. The 
author left a number of short notes which have been expanded ; 
but a few which were so brief as to defy interpretation have 
been omitted. A few extracts from his letters have been 
added. The drawing of the plates has been supervised, and an 
explanation of the figures prepared. The numbers and localities 
have been carefully collated with Mr. Elliott’s collections and 
corrected where necessary, and two species which Mr. Spruce 
had identified but omitted to put in his list have been included. 
The references to published descriptions have been looked up 
aud inserted.— A. Gepp. | 
