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Polycarpum tetraphyllum, 

 Bupleurum odontites. 

 Lobelia urens, &c. 



Erica vagans, has been also found near Ax- 

 minster. 



A few years only have elapsed, since Cryptoga- 

 mous Botany began to engage general attention. 

 It is still in its infancy ; but at the present moment, 

 is, perhaps, advancing with more rapid strides, than 

 most other branches of botany. Besides many emi- 

 nent Continental Cryptogamists, we have one* re- 

 cently appointed Professor of Botany in the College 

 of Glasgow, who is devoting his time to, and exercis- 

 ing his unrivalled acuteness, upon the recondite trea- 

 sures of this department ; and has already present- 

 ed to the world above 1 70 new musci, many of 

 them collected in the recesses of Nepali — many in 

 the wilds of South America, — the former by the 

 Honourable D. Gardner, the latter by the in- 

 defatigable Humboldt and Bonpland. Minute and 

 worthless as this part of the vegetable creation may 

 appear to be in the eyes of the multitude, those 

 who have particularly studied them, have been 

 amply repaid for their trouble. Cui bono hcec om- 

 nia ? We might, indeed, be contented to answer 



* Dr William Jackson Hooker, author of Recollections 

 of a Tour in Iceland, a Monograph on the British Jwngermannhoe f 

 Musci exotici, &c. &c v and who is now engaged not only in 

 continuing the Flora Londinensis, but in a Flora Scotica. 



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