318 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



1. SULLIVANT, W. S. ; 



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of the Mississippi River. Contributed to the Second 



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illustrating the Genera. 8vo. New York, 1856. 



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Sullivant et Lesquerkeux ediderunt. Columbi Ohioensium, 



sumptibns auctorura, 1856. (Accompanied by a volume of speci- 

 mens in folio.) 



Thanks to the impetus given to general botany in the United States 

 towards the end of the last century, by such men as Elliott, Nuttall, 

 etc. etc., and in the Cryptogaraia by Muhlenberg, the science has pro- 

 gressed in a remarkable manner, and those zealous men have been suc- 

 ceeded by Messrs. Torrey and Gray and others in the first-mentioned 

 department, who have contributed largely to the knowledge of the bo- 

 tany of other countries, as well as to that of the United States, while 

 again Messrs. Sullivant and Lesquerreux, Tuckermann, and Curtis, etc., 

 have done no less for Cryptogamic Botany. Mr. Tuckermann's works 

 on the Lichens of the United States we have noticed with much satis- 

 faction in this journal, and we have briefly alluded to the * Musci and 

 Hepaticse of the United States,' by Mr. Sullivant, in connection with 

 the second edition of Dr. Asa Gray's ' Manual of the Botany of the 

 Middle United States,' in which the letter-press of the first article which 

 heads this notice appeared, exactly as in the present form. Here that 

 letter-press appears apart from the Manual, in a large octavo, accom- 

 panied by a brief Preface, and, what is of still more consequence to 



the student, with admirably executed figures illustrative of all the 

 genera, somewhat after the model of Hooker and Taylor's ' Muscologia 

 Britannica,* only that here the Hepatica are included, and the genera 

 are much more numerous than were adopted at the period when that 

 work appeared, for it includes all the recent genera usually adopted by 

 the most distinguished Muscologists, and some new ones are formed 

 by Mr. Sullivant himself. 



Hepat 



Mosses 



Mississippi 



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a few 



species found elsewhere, either new, or having a geographical range 

 heretofore unnoticed, or for some other special reason, have also been 



