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\ ’ E shail issue in a few days an elegantly illustrated “* MANUAL OF AMERICAN SE4 
Mosses,” prepared by Rev. A. B. Hervey. It is just such a work as has lony 
been needed and much called for: a handy, convenient book for sea-side use 
Nothing of the kind has been published in this eauutnys Harvey’s great work, cum- 
pleted 25 years ago, in three ponderous quartos, being too expensive and too cum- 
bersome for general and popular use. 
It is a complete Collector’s Guide, giving practical information as to the best times, 
places and methods of collecting the necessary apparatus, and the details of float- 
ing out, pressing, drying, preserving, and mounting these beautiful plants Full 
directions are also given of the best methods of studying and identifying these plants. 
Full “keys” are given, at the head of each group, by which the most inexperienced 
may be easily guided to the genus to which the plant he is studying belongs, 
While in the description of species the method of treatment is popular, and 
especially adapted to the need of amateur botanists and sea-side collectors, all the state- 
ments are made with scientific accuracy and carefulness. AJl the common species 
belonging to the three great groups of Green, Olive Colored and Red Alga, are taken 
up in order, and so described in detail, that it is believed they may be easily identified 
whenever found. The book is thus made a complete guide tu all the common and 
beautiful forms of our Atlantic flora, north of the Carolinas, including nearly all the 
characteristic forms of the Pacific coast, for California, Oregon and the North. 
The plates, twenty in number, are drawn and colored from nature, and represent 
twenty-four of the most interesting, beautiful and characteristic species, in not less 
than nineteen genera. 
-The work is issued in elegant binding, 12 mo., over 300 pages, and is printed on fine, 
heavy paper, with 20 full-paged colored plates. Price, postpaid, $2.00. 
S@=For sale by all booksellers, or sent, postpaid, on receipt 
of price, by the publisher. 
See GAS ol N On PUBLISHER: 
32 HAWLEY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
