AUG 7= 1923 
THE 
mist RIBUTION OF HEPATIC 
IN SCOTLAND LMRARY 
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BOTANECA 
HISTORICAL GAR SEN 
THE first author who appears to have mentioned Scottish 
Hepatice is Str Rospert SIBBALD (1641-1722). In his 
Scotia Illustrata, 1684, he gives Marchantia polymorpha! 
and Pellia epiphylla, also another thalloid species of which 
the identity is doubtful, and Plagiochila asplenioides. 
Nearly a hundred years later, in 1772, the REv. JoHn 
LigHtTrooT (1735-88) travelled through Scotland with 
Pennant, and gave the botanical results of the tour in his 
Flora Scotica, 1777. In this work the following additional 
Hepatice are given:—Riccia glawea?, Targionia hypo- 
phylla, Preissia quadrata, Conocephalum conicum, Anewra 
pinguis, Metzgeria furcata, Blasia pusilla, Gymnomitrium 
concinnatum, Lophocolea bidentata?, Chiloscyphus poly- 
anthos, Cephalozia bicuspidata, Calypogeia Trichomanis, 
CO. fissa, Lepidozia reptans, Anthelia julacea, Diplo- 
phyllum albicans, Radula complanata, Plewrozia pur- 
purea, Madotheca platyphylla, Frullania Tamarisci, and 
F. dilatata. His Jungermannia lanceolata, J. viticulosa, 
J. quinquedentata, J. undulata, and J. reswpinata are too 
uncertain to identify. With his Plewrozia purpurea he 
has confused Scapania purpwrascens, as can be seen from 
the habitats given. This mistake has also been made by 
more recent botanists. 
JAMES Dickson (1738-1822) made numerous additions 
to the British Jungermannie, according to Hooker. He 
published the Fase. Plant. Crypt. Brit., 1-4, in 1785-1801. 
1 The modern names are here used. 
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