HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 4.71 
plete work on sea-plants or Fuci*, and is in this 
epoch the first German who has written on this dit- - 
ficult genus. However Esper only collects the 
known species, and does not examine what 1s stull 
unknown, their organs of generation. ) 
As the narrow limits of a sketch, do not ant 
us to introduce a complete history of boiany, we 
shall give the names only of some other ce ted 
botanists. They are, Acharius, Atzelius, Baum- 
garten, Bellardi, Bolton, Bose, Gels, Curtis, Cyrillo, 
Dahl, Danaa, Desfontaines, tiene ee Dick- 
son, Dombey, Ehrhart, Euphrasen, Fahiberg, l’roch- 
lich, Funk, Geuns, Goodenough, Haenke, Hellenius, 
Holmskiold, Hoppe, Hornstaedt, Host, Isert, Jusstnu, 
Lambert, La Peyrouse, Liljeblad, Lumnitzer, Mar- 
tyn, Mutis, Nocca, Panzer, Patterson, Pavon, Poiret, 
Rohr, Roth, Ruitz, Ryan, Salisbury, Schmidt, 
Schousboe, Schrank, Schumacher, Sowerby, Thouin, 
Timm, Ucria, Villars, Walter, West, Wiborg, Wil- 
lemet, Woodward, Zuccagni, and many others. 
lume describes the species of the first genera. Of six uncolour- 
ed plates four represent the genera, of the musci, and two some 
new species. 
* Tcones fucorum, s. Abildungen der Tange, published | 
by E. J. C. Esper Nuernberg. 1797. 4to. ‘Two. fascicles 
have only appeared with 63 coloured plates, containing the 
description of the represented species. It would have been ° 
better, had some of the figures been drawn with more-.accuracy 
qnd ina less coarse manner. 
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