THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[SECOND SERIES. ] 
No. 14. FEBRUARY 1849. 
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X.—The Musci and Hepatice of the Pyrenees. 
By Ricuarp Spruce*. 
[ With three Plates. ] 
Brrore entering upon an enumeration of the Musci and Hepa- 
ticee of the Pyrenees, it will be proper to indicate the sources 
from which it has been derived. I have not been able to find 
any trustworthy record of mosses gathered in the Pyrenees pre- 
vious to the time of Bridel, who in 1803 visited the Pyrénées 
Orientales and the northern part of Catalonia, where he disco- 
vered his Bartramia stricta, Barbula chloronotos and some others. 
Of Bridel’s mosses I have seen only a very few, communicated by 
Professor Arnott from the herbarium of M. Requien. In the 
3rd edition of the ‘Flore Frangaise’ (1815) several Pyrenean 
stations of mosses are recorded, on the authority of DeCandolle, 
- Ramond, Dufour and Grateloup. The two botanists last-named 
have since that period continued to pay occasional botanical 
visits to the Pyrenees, almost up to the present time, and to 
their liberality I owe specimens of such mosses as they collected. 
In 1825 the eastern and central Pyrenees were visited by our 
distinguished countrymen, Messrs.G. Bentham and G. A. Walker- 
Arnott, and the latter gentleman has kindly communicated to 
me specimens of nearly alk his Pyrenean mosses, a few only of 
which he has noticed in “ A Tour to the South of France and 
the Pyrenees,” inserted in the ‘ Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal’ for April 1826. Still later, from 1828 to 1830, the 
eastern Pyrenees were at various times partially explored by Dr. C. 
Montagne, whose knowledge of general Cryptogamy is unrivalled, 
and his discoveries, including numerous lichens and not a few 
mosses, were announced by himself in the ‘ Archives de Bota- 
nique,’ tom. i. (1833), under the title of “ Notice sur les Plantes 
* Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Jan. 11th, 1849. 
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