224 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
on Moosbild’ (Verhandl. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch., oo pie 
ntaining his views on the classification of Mosses; his ‘ 
Bideeynion’ (1878), including all the vascular ‘aiits 8 gia isin 
of the Harz region; and his ‘Enumeratio Muscorum Lactenus in 
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born on the 5th of July, 1795, at Teitenbety on the Weser, and 
at an early age began the study of pharmacy, in which he after- 
aie ee d an eminent position. After residing in various 
town Germany in the practice of his eobiteibts he settle 
down in 1 1895 at sl chlo the Harz, where he continued re 
live until 1876. In that year he removed to the house of his 
second son, a physician in the neighbouring vis of Helmstedt, 
where he died last November. an Harz was the field of most of 
his botanical explorations, and no one knew its flora better than 
he. it o 
his life by his friend Karl Miller, appeared in ‘ Die Natur,’ 22nd 
January, 1881. The interesting statement of Karl Miiller, that 
world, is worth reproducing. en ‘ Synopsis yma es 
was finished in 185 851, the number had risen rr ey nd now Kar 
Miiller estimates it at 6000, at least. Hampe was made : Doctor 
of Philosophy (honoris causa) by the Gottingen Geivesuih 
copa of his jubilee in his profession, and the title of Professor 
was bestowed on him in 1875. His splendid soltackions of Mosse 
i Hepatic are now in the Department of Botany of the British 
use 
=n s * Flora of the Bristol Coal- ne has been undertaken by 
the Bristol Naturalists’ Society, and will be edited by Mr. J. W. 
ite, hon. sec. of the Botanical 8 ae The limit adopted by 
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Borvalay and Dursley, in Gloucestershire, to Highbridge and Wells, 
in Somerset ; and east and west, from Bath to the Bristol Chann el, 
the 
sion n olume o 
actions.’ The foie part (Dicotyle ite a, a Boles sik - 
now in the pre An historical Speck of Bristol Bot 
other elaidnstary ts matter, is var mace but will se foie 
ntl the publication is complete. Although St. Vincent’s Rocks 
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district have met with still less attention. A contribution to our 
knowledge of so interesting a flora will therefore am welcome. 
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