CHAPTER III 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



TT would clearly be going beyond the bounds 

 of a book such as this, were I to attempt to 

 enter upon the subject of the classification of the 

 various species of mosses and liverworts; this 

 part of his subject the student will best master 

 as he gradually becomes acquainted with the 

 plants themselves, and learns to attach to them 

 their specific names, and for such work he will, 

 of necessity, have to consult one or other of the 

 more scientific treatises, where such details are 

 of course fully given. It may, therefore, be of 

 use if I refer very shortly to a few of the books 

 published in England which will best serve his 

 purpose in this and other respects. Until com- 

 paratively lately by far the best book, in fact 

 almost the only practical one on the mosses, was 

 Wilson's "Bryologia Britannica," a work which 

 was published in the early part of the nineteenth 

 century, and which long remained the standard 

 treatise on the subject; indeed, even now, one 

 often refers to its clear and helpful descriptions, 

 though its classification has largely been altered 

 by later writers, and the plates have been super- 



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