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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Me. Ivors Heparicæ BnrrANNICE ; or Pocket Herbarium 
of British Heparicæ, named and arranged according to 
the most approved system; by Ww. GRAHAM Mc. Ivor. 
Our Journal has had frequent occasion to speak favourably 
of Specimens of Cryptogamic Plants, which have been pub- 
lished from time to time by various Botanists, and which 
have contributed materially to a more complete knowledge of 
the species of our own country, Mr. Dickson and Mr. G. Don, 
of Forfar, were among the first of British Botanists (if not the 
_ first Botanists in any country) who adopted this mode of publi- 
(ation. Their specimens were indeed roughly preserved and 
. given in Fasciculi with little taste as to arrangement or 
... Quality of paper. Mr. Hobson of Manchester, Dr, Greville, 
.. Mr. Thos. Drummond, the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Mr. Gardner, 
now Director of the Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, Mrs. Wyatt 
of Torquay, and Mr. Gardiner of Dundee, have severally 
Over those of their predecessors; and through their meal 
3 much light has been thrown upon the Mosses, the Lichens, 
"gi and the Alge of Great Britain. A separ 
issued Fasciculi which have exhibited a great improvemen nt. = ee 
