IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC WORKS 



[under the authority of the lords commissioners of the admihalty.] 

 In Sc^ven Montlihj Parts (two of wlucli are now puhlished) , 



CRYPTOGAMIA ANTARCTICA, 



OR 



CRYPTOGAMIC PORTION 



of 



THE ANTARCTIC BOTANY, 



CONTAINING THE 



MOSSES, HEPATIC^, SEA- WEEDS, AND LICHENS. 

 BY 



JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER, M.D., R.N., E.L.S., 



BOTANIST TO THE EXPEDITION. 



So large is the proportion of Mosses, HepaticfB, Sea-tceeds, and Lichens 

 brought home by the Antarctic Expedition, as compared Avith the Phee- 

 nogamic plants, and they contain so much of interest and novelty that 

 the author has been induced, at the request of several Cryptogamic 

 Botanists, to prepare a fcAV extra copies of these Tribes for separate 

 circidation. The number of Mosses collected during tlie Expedition 

 amounts to nearly three lumdi-cd species ; the Hepatica; include more 

 than a hundred and lifty new species, and as double that number re- 

 quired investigation, they liave proved to be amongst the most labori- 

 ous departments of the Botany. The Lichens, amounting to not quite 

 two liundred in number ofl'er few undoscribcd species ; but the Algce, 

 in a hemisphere of which the sea occupies so vast a proportion, de- 

 manded particular attention ; of these there are sixty species from Lord 

 Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island alone, nearly twice as many 

 from the other Antarctic Islands, and above two hundred from Tasmania 

 and New Zealand. 



Parts 1 to 3. — the Cryptogamia of Lord Auckland's Group and 

 Campbell's Islands, illustrated with 24 plates, will be completed on 

 the 1st of May, price \l. 8«. coloured, 185. plain. Part 3, being charged 

 12s. coloured, 8«. plain, on account of the additional amount of letter- 

 press, which this department of the Botany occupies. 



N.B. The Cryptogamic Botany of the New Zealand and Tasmanian 

 Floras will be published separately in like manner. 



