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nervo paulo infra apicem evanescente, valido. Seta in 

 caule terminalis, vix semi-unciam longa, gracilis, flavo- 

 rubicunda. Capsida ovato-oblonga, supra medium leni- 

 ter contracta, rufo-fusca. Operculum conico-acunuuatiun, 

 in rostro, capsula subasque longo, terminatum. Calyptra 

 dimidiata, pallide flavo-fusca. 



am not aware of any species of Gymnostomum that ap- 

 proaches this in character; nor do I know that it has been 

 found by any Botanist except Dr. Gillies, in the place above 

 mentioned. 



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Tab. LXXV. Fig, 1, Tuft:— wa^. size. Fig. 2, Single 

 Plant. Fig. 3, Stem-leaf. Fig. 4, Leaf of an innovation. 

 Fig. 5, Portion of a leaf to show the reticulation- Fig. 6, 

 Capsule. Fig. 7, Operculum. Fig. 8, Calyptra :^all 

 ^^t Jig. 1 more or less magnified. 



NEW BRITISH FLORA, BY DR. HOOKER. 



It has often been a matter of surprise to us, that notmthstanding: the 

 ^ery numerous Floras of Great Britain which have appeared, not one 

 has been published under such a form as to comprehend, in the smallest 



SnnPA nil il i • ■• 1 ^ 1 !• -1. ;i.l« «11 <..>n/».l1ii/^>ia 



excluding 

 inatter) for determininsr the classes ai 

 our native plants. 



""' uauve plants. 



Those which are most valuable, and too much cannot be said in their 

 praise, are unquestionably the English Flora of Sir J. E. Smith, and the 

 Compendium Florcs BritaimiccB of the same learned author. But without 

 any disparagement to their merits, it may be stated, respecting the former, 

 ttiat its bulk forbids the study of it elsewhere than at home ; while the 

 ^tter, expressly designed for use in the field, is too circumscribed in 



jne characters of its species, (rarely extending to more than t 

 hn pO *„ jjgjjj.^i essential assistance, except to those already 



m the science. 



IS, to 



o steer a middle course between these two extremes— that 

 ' -" s've, oesides specific characters of every species, such descnptive 

 matter and diagnosis as may be requisite to its further elucidation— was 

 made by Dr. Hooker in his Flora of Scotland; and the progress of his 

 own Students in the University of Glasgow, who have been iu the daily 

 "abit of using it during the session, together with the rapid sale of a verjr 



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