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THE HEPATIC/E 



OF 



THE BRITISH ISLES. 



BY 



W. H. PEARSON. 



PRESS NOTICES, 



"The descriptions of the species are clear and full, and the shorter 

 notes which accompany many of them are interesting and often of 

 critical value. . . . The geographical distribution of each species is 

 mentioned, and frequently the actual localities also. ... A glossary, 

 table of literature, and a good index complete the volume. . . . The 

 228 plates form a splendid adjunct to the text, and will prove of 

 material service in the proper identification of the various species ; each 

 generally includes a life-size representation of the species, as well as 

 drawings on a large scale, of dissections, fructifications, &c. The 

 cellular structure of the leaves is also depicted, and this will often be 

 found of much value in deciding between doubtful cases. . . . Mr. 

 Pearson has laid British botanists under great obligations, and has 

 succeeded in producing a book that ought to serve to rescue from com- 

 parative, though altogether unmerited oblivion, a family by no means 

 the least interesting of the vegetable kingdom."— J. B. Farmer, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., Prof. Bot. Eoyal College of Science, South Kensington, 

 in Nature. 



" The admirable descriptions drawn up by one who is familiar with 

 the plants in the field and fully illustrated as they are on the plates, 

 together with the observations in which similar species are contrasted 

 and separated, will be of the greatest service for the identification of 

 the species of this difficult family of plants."— 0. H. Waddell, in the 

 Irish Naturalist. 



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