56 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
correctly named specimens, especially of Cryptogamic Plants ; 
and they are doubly useful when given in the form of a 
Pocket-Book, or Pocket Herbarium (** Taschenherbarium” of the 
Germans), like the “ Deutschland Moose” of P. C. Funck, and 
the * Musei Britannici” of our friend, Mr. Gardner. On the 
plan of those exquisitely beautiful models the present work has 
been formed; and it is not a whit behind them in the perfectness 
of the specimens, in completeness of the number of species, 
and correctness of the nomenclature. The Hepatice are here 
divided into thirty-nine genera; the number of species in the 
copy before us is one hundred and thirty-five, (including a 
few well marked varieties,) and the volume is offered at the 
moderate price of 21s. With the most indefatigable industry 
Mr. M’ Ivor has collected, with his own hands, in England and in 
Scotland, most of the species here given, and has made exchanges 
with other botanists, so as to obtain certain rare species which he 
has not had the good fortune to gather; and thus he is enabled 
to render the work more complete than it could otherwise be. 
ltis probable that Cryptogamic and other Botanists will not 
derive so much advantage from the publication of this work as 
might be expected, were the author to continue in this country, 
and have the opportunity of preparing a greater number of copies 
than his limited time and means have allowed. Still, it is a sub- 
ject for congratulation that so enthusiastic and intelligent an 
Horticulturist and Botanist is charged, by the Honourable the 
Court of Directors of the East India Company, with the formation 
and management of a Botanical Garden in the Neelgherry Hills 
of the Madras Presidency. Mr. M’ Ivor will embark for his 
new office in a few weeks; and the copies of the “ Hepatice 
Britannice” remaining unsold, will be left with Mr. James 
Crammond, at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, where appli- 
cation may be made for the work. 
