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among those who are occupied in investigating 

 the flora and fauna of our country. This may 

 have been attributable, in some degree, to the 

 absence of available literature which included the 



deters people from taking up the group, as is 

 evident from a perusal of this section of 

 Mr. Crombie's excellent monograph. It is intended 

 to complete the work in two volumes, and this first 



considerable results from the work of those who 

 have latterly devoted attention to these lowly 

 plants. It certainly cannot be the want of material 

 in number of species occurring in Britain that 



part contains sixty-six out of the ninety-two 

 genera as yet found in this country. In Part I. 

 there are included about 600 species. Besides this 

 large number, there are quite as many more named 



