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LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 383 
acknowledged to be the most accurate and valuable portion 
of the whole publication. 
Cryptogamic Botany was particularly studied by Swartz, 
and the Mosses received a large portion of his attention. His 
collection of these minute but beautiful parts of the vegetable 
= Creation, which had been got together in the West Indies, is 
.. fully described in his ** Flora Indie Occidentalis ;" and besides 
.. the “Methodus Muscorum," already alluded to, there appeared 
.. in-1799, his admirable little manual, ** Dispositio Systematica 
-~ Muscorum Frondosorum Sueciæ ; adjectis descriptionibus et icon- 
_ ibus novarum specierum," which has served as a model for the 
. excellent ** Muscologie Hibernie Spicilegium," of Mr Dawson 
— Turner, and for the ** Mosses of Germany,” already alluded 
. to, as published by Weber and Mohr. Several new Genera 
- of Mosses were established by Swartz, such as ** Cynontodium, 
Conostomum, Cinclidium, and Calymperes; while on the other 
. hand certain Genera of Hedwig have been abolished; and 
. these views have been confirmed by many recent and dis- 
tinguished Botanists. Fissidens he combined with Dicranum, 
_ Swartzia with Didymodon, Barbula with Tortula, and Webera 
— with Bryum, &c. aaoo 
— — In no publication does Swartz's merit as a Botanist appear - 
| more conspicuous than in his ** Synopsis Filicum," published 
. at Kiel in 1806, with five plates. To him we are indebted 
— for the Genera Lygodium, Psilotum, Botrychium, Grammitis, 
Anemia, Mohria and Cheilanthes, and none were ever establish- 
ed on more solid grounds. 
With respect to Swartz's | 
abours among the lichen be. : 
Occidentalis,” there appeared in 1811, a “ Fasciculus of the 
Lichenes Americane;” and as to the Fungi, it is said by Wik- 
ström that he discovered, in the neighbourhood of Stockholm 
alone, three hundred species which were new to the Swedish 
Flora. ; 
- It is not our object to notice the numerous memoirs by 
our author, which were inserted in the Transactions of various — 
Societies, whether on Botany, on Horticulture, or on Zoology. 
sides the several new species described in the “Flora Indie c 
