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PROFESSOR GUISEPPE DE NOTARIS. 
liononr, attlie expense of tlie Universitj of Genoa, received from 
tlie Academy of Sciences at Paris the great distinction of the 
Desmazieres prize. His work may be said to have introduced a 
radical reform into the study of cryptogamy, as may be seen by 
comparing the first and second editions of Schimper’s great work, 
“ Briologia Europaea.” De Notaris’s bryological labours closed 
with his “Musci Napoani.” 
In Hepaticology we find his earliest work, “ Primitiae Hepatico - 
logicie Italianse,” containing descriptions of ninety-two species. 
In 1853 he published “ Appunti per un nuovo Censimento delle 
Epatiche Italiane;” and very recently contributed to the “ Nuovo 
Giornale Botanico Ttaliano,” an account of Beccari’s Hepaticae 
from New Guinea. 
In Mycetology, De Notaris published, in 1839, “ Micromicetes 
Italici novi vel minus cogniti.” Subsequently we find monographs 
of the Italian “ Excipulae,” and “ Spheriaceae a revision of the 
“ Discomycetes ” and of the “ Pyrenomycetes,” besides numerous 
other lesser publications. 
In Lichenology he was not idle. His “ Framenti Licheno- 
grafici” first called the attention of botanists to the spores of 
lichens as furnishing characters for their classification. Other 
publications related to the Parmeliacea^ to Sticta, to Peltigera, to 
Ahrothallus, and to Stei'eopeltis. 
In Algology his series of publications commences with his 
“ Algologiae maris ligustici specimen,” containing descriptions of 
125 species, many of them new. This was followed by his 
“ Nuovi Materiali per I’Algologia del mar Rosso.” In 1861 he 
published critical notes on the genera Horrnosiphon and Nostoc, and 
in 1867 his “ Elementi per lo Studio della Desmidiacese Italiche.” 
[Abstracted from a biographical notice — “ Guiseppe de Notaris, 
sua vita e sue opere,” in the “ Opinione ” of Rome.] 
The following are the principal of Professor de Notaris’s 
writings : — 
Synopsis Muscorum Mediolanensium. 
Musci Mediolanenses collecti et editi 
Mantissa Muscorum ad Floram Pedemontanam 
Pugillus Muscorum Italia novorum vel minus cogni- 
torum. 
Specimen de Tortulis Italicis. 
Sylloge Muscorum Italias. . . . . . 
Musci Italici ........ 
Cronaca della Briologia Italiana . . 1864 
Epilogo della Briologia Italiana. 
Musci Napoani, in Acad. Sci., Turin. 
Primitiai Hepaticologicie Italicee .... 
Appunti per un nuovo censimento della Epatiche 
Italiane ........ 
1834 
1835 
1838 
1859 
1867 
1830 
1853 
