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Before the year 1700, there were issued four other 
botanical works having some little reference to the Hepatice. 
In Plukenet’s “Almagestum Botanicum” (London, 1696) 
there appears, in the usual list under the head of “ Lichen,” 
a short description which Lindberg applies to Pellia 
epiphylla, and another, accompanied by a figure, which is 
quoted by Linnzus* in the synonymy for the hepatic we now 
call Aneura pinguis. The identification of this latter plant 
of Plukenet’s is somewhat doubtful and it is ignored by 
Lindberg. In the “Histoire des Plantes——de Paris”® of 
Tournefort, Lindberg finds mentioned a Muscus palustris, 
Absinthii folio, insipidus which he thinks to be Trichocolea 
tomentella, and in James Petiver’s “ Musei Petiveriana” the 
Swedish bryologist discovers a description and figure of 
Ricciella fluitans and description alone of Ricciocarpus 
natans. Petiver credits the authorship to Buddle, whose 
herbarium containing 28 species of Hepatice is now pre- 
served in the British Museum. Jacob Bobart (the son) in 
the third part of Morison’s “ Plantarum Historia Universalis” 
gives a list of twelve supposed species of ‘ Lichen,” 
remarkable chiefly for confusion in synonymy. Later in the 
same work (p. 627), several hepatics are described as Musci. 
Two of these, pronounced by Lindberg to be Mylia Taylori 
and Jungermannia riparia, make their first appearance 
here. Lindberg’s determinations may sometimes seem to 
hang upon slender threads, but when we consider his wide 
acquaintance with hepatic forms, the acuteness of his 
critical powers, and the fact that he carefully studied the 
herbaria of Buddle, Dillenius, and others, we must at least 
receive his opinions with much confidence. Between the 
year 1699 and the time of Linneus, the classical works of 
Tournefort, Dillenius, Ruppius, Vaillant, and Micheli were 
8Species Plantarum, p. 1136, ed. I. 
9Paris, 1698. 
10See article entitled, “The Mosses in Buddle’s Hortus Siccus,” 
Journal of Botany, vol. III (new series), 1874, p. 36. 
bert Morison, Plantarum Historia Universalis Oxoniensis, Pars 
tertia, p. 622; Oxford, 1699. 
