Hepaticae Natalenses 



a clarissima domina Helena Bertelsen missae 

 auctore 

 W. H. Pearson. 



(Fremlagt i den mathematisk-naturvidenskabelige Klasses Møde d. 5te Februar 



1886 af Dr. Kiær). 



This small but interesting collection of hepatics, from near 

 Natal, South Africa, made in May and June 1882^ and sent 

 by Mrs. Ellen Sophie Bertelsen, the widow of the Norwegian 

 missionary E. A. Bertelsen (f 1883), has been sent to me to be 

 named, by Doctor F. C. Kiær of Christiania. 



I have endeavoured to name them accurately, to fhe best of 

 my ability and would fain hope that I have not further complic- 

 ated this difficult order. 



In the arrangement, terms etc. I have followed the latest 

 adopted by my distinguished countryman Dr. Spruce in his 

 Memoir on the Hepaticae of the Amazon and of the Andes of 

 Peru and Ecuador. Trans. Bot. Edin. v. XV p. 1 and 11 (1884—5). 

 Dr. Spruce has been kind enough to add a few notes on soma 

 of the species, and otherwise assisted me, for which I thank him. 



I add an extract from E. Spruce „0n Cephalozia" 1882 as 

 to the terms, for they will be used for the future, I think by 

 all hepaticologists. 



„In the terminology I have adopted the term foliola for the 

 underleaves, or stipules — the so-called amphigastria of authors ; 



1 near Umpumulo: the 8th March at Isalislasi mountain, and the 27t.li June 

 by a river. 



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