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NOTICES OF oo, 
monti ric quinoctialis a 
azonum ostiis ad Maris Pacifici pies mage necnon & 
eataractis fluminis Orinoci, cis equator adusque fluvit 
Huallaga cataractas, Lat. 6°-7° aeelis annis 1849-1862, 
decerpsit nuperiusque one Ricwarp SPRUCE. Trans. 
Bot. Soc. Edinb. Vol. Parts i. & ii. 1884-5.— 
Hepatice of the anon aad of the eres of Peru and 
Keuador. 8vo, pp. 588, tt. 22, cloth. Tribne 
We oo Dr. Spruce very rosie on the chai of 
a great work on the Amazonian Hepatice. Few who saw him on 
believed that he would live to arrange-and describe the unrivalled 
1849, and the last about the close of 1862. His return to Englan 
was delayed until May Ist, 1864. For the last two years he 
eae ag on i> a coast of Pern ae with dysentery, and 
in this n not a single Hepatic was seen. We may remim our 
s mark as one of the most promising bryologists “ a day: 
i ale,” 
We can imagine with what visagiie | the friends of that 
Greville, Sir W. ‘Heakie, Dr. Taylor, and _ Wilson—now no eee 
—would have welcomed the work before us 
The author defines 577 Sra of ‘equatorial American Hepatice, 
e majority new to science, and all but some half-dozen species 
Re by himself. Of. these species, 283 are Jubulee, 274 
ermannie@, and 22 Marchantiacee. They are arrange ed under 
fifty. -one genera, whereof —_ are deo e i ages Cheetocolea 
unaccu ies our - ears, t the iltastentiona, ‘which are 
carefully lithographea by Carter, an drawings by Dr. Braithwaite, 
sq. (the latter excellent), will’; — the student 
to aeeteet the meaning of the author. 
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