&8 DILLENIAN HERBARIUM, 
LIST OF MOSSES IN THE DILLENIAN HERBARIUM. 
G. A. W. AnNorT, Esq. anp W. J. Hooker. 
In 1803, Mr. Dawson Turner and Mr. Joseph Woods 
examined the Herbarium of Dillenius at Oxford, with a view 
to determining many of the doubtful plants of that celebrated 
author’s Historia Muscorum, by the only satisfactory means of 
ascertaining them, a careful inspection of the specimens them- 
selves; and the result of their investigation is given in the 7th 
volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. It is to 
be regretted, however, that the leading object of those gentle- 
men, in every respect so well qualified to have commented 
upon the whole, was the submerged Algae. The single day 
that they were alone able to devote to it, served them only to 
look through the Conferve, Ulve, Lichens, and Hypna, with 
some care; and to take but a hasty view of the remaining 
genera of Mosses. It has been our object in a late visit to 
Oxford, and by the permission of our valued friend Professor 
Williams, to fill up the blank which exists in the Catalogue 
of Messrs. Turner and Woods, and our attention has been 
exclusively devoted to the Mosses, which is certainly a very 
extraordinary collection, considering the period when it was 
formed, and it is still in a perfectly good state of preservation. 
There appears to us to be a mistake in regard to the station 
of certain of the Mosses, given as natives of ** Patagonia:" the 
species so marked being in several instances known to be in- 
habitants of North America. 
The Tables and Figures refer to the plates of the Historia 
Muscorum, the specimens being so numbered as to correspond 
with them. 
December 5, 1832. 
Tas. 1n. f. 1, Bryum androgynum, Hedw. 
2, Tetraphis pellucida Hedw., excepting 2 A, 
which is Bryum stellare, from Haller. 
