350 British Flora. 



Saharumpur, &c., by George Bentham, Esq. : a valuable 

 paper to systematic botany. Description by Drs. Greville 

 and Hooker of Polypodium raelanopum, and Cryptogramma 

 retrofracta, of which figures were given in part viii. : see our 

 Vol. VIII. p. 714. 



Hooker, W. J., LL.D. : A new and improved Edition of Cur- 

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Mr. Curtis and Dr. Hooker are, In the acts bespoken, 

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HooJcer, W. J., LL.D., &c. &c.. King's Professor of Botany 

 in the University of Glasgow : The English Flora of Sir 

 J. E. Smith, Class XXIV., Cryptogamia, Vol. V. Or 

 Vol. II. of Dr. Hooker's British Flora, Part L, comprising 

 the Mosses, Hepaticse, Lichens, Characeae, and ^'Igae. 

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