40 NOTES ON ABBOT’S HERBARIUM. 
Hudson’ _ are succubous. But for J. trilobata, L., he quo otes 
Mich., t. 5, f. 10—the figure of a Fossombronia, apparently F 
angulata. ee, — such a —— were obviously mere guess- 
work, and many more might “si ted. 
From all that srectiaee it may vendily be understood how ‘‘ false” 
specimens of Po aboundin herbaria. I have during the last 
nine years examined a great many authentic specimens of Hepatice, 
from all parts of the chk and in the whole number about one in 
every three was not genuine.* Wharetore, considering how often - 
and others have been misled by the evidence of so-called ‘‘ authent 
specimens ”’ of this family, I am compelled to refuse absolutely o 
receive any such evidence where it is contradicted by the author’s 
ublished daneel eee: This is not to despise the valuable aid a 
NOTES ON THE HERBARIUM OF ABBOT, 
WITH REMARKS ON THE SYNONYMY OF SOME OF THE SPECIES. 
By R. A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.S. 
Turover the kindness of Mr. W. Hillhouse, at that time of 
collection has been described in in glowing terms in the preface to 
the ‘ Flora Bedfordiensis,’ where it is stated to be “ the admiration 
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‘* amiable mee Bie ory partner of ‘his pursuits and labours.” 
‘“* But this,” the writer goes on to obs serve, ‘‘ is only one of the 
innumerable obligations for which he is proud to acknowledge him- 
self indebted to her assiduity and attachmen We and it seems not 
improbable that the “ fair associate” in question was accustomed 
to expect or even to insist upon such Pa exhibitions of deference 
and gallantry. Be this as it may, th e language inl bee ey the 
VS author of the Flora, to which this herbari e- 
si to be a companion, is calculated to excite our sitet 2 in no 
pceneete degree ; the expectations Le raised, however, will not 
be found to stand the test of examination. 
The collection is contained in five folio volumes ; owing, how. 
ever, to the immaturity and fragmentary condition of a duttsitersble 
n among true mosses, an author’s own specimens are not always to be 
relied at (as Wilson himself had fr. frequently to confess in his 
they much more rarely grow intermixed than liverworts, and where a patch does 
erworts, so with mosses, no authentic Specimen can be received in 
evidence which con teliRdety the author's description in its most essential 
aracters. 
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