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He also added excellent descriptions and illustrations, written 
in the Swedish language, to the figures published by Palmsbruch 
and Billberg , in the Suensk Botanik , or Swedish Botanist ; at 
least in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth volumes. In the de- 
scriptions of rare plants, he exhibited a specimen of the most 
acute examination, without prolixity, and without exciting fasti- 
diousness, confining himself to the purest language, and the use 
of the usual technical terms. 
Nor was the application of Swartz limited to phasnogamous 
plants, but, applying himself with zeal to the study of cryp- 
togamic vegetation, he was almost the first of his country- 
men who subjected this department of botany to minute investi- 
gation. For when he yet attended the demonstrations of the 
Younger Linnaeus, he occupied himself in arranging the Mosses , 
which had been neglected and ill defined by Linnaeus himself, 
and in evolving new characters for them. In which attempt, al- 
though, in consequence of following the observations of Hedwig , 
he was entirely deficient in the true and systematic knowledge 
which he afterwards acquired, he added, however, those import- 
ant and beautiful Novitice cryptogamica , in which Splachnum 
sphaericum , gathered by himself in Lulean Lapland ; Splachnum 
angustatum , Polytrichum convolutum , and many other mosses, 
and even tropical lichens, appeared for the first time. Those 
mosses which he discovered in his native country, he again de- 
scribed, when residing in the West Indies, in the Nova Acta 
Ups. vol. iv. p. 239. After this he inserted a Systematic Ar- 
rangement vf the Swedish Mosses , in the Transactions of the 
Academy ( Vetensk . Acad. Handl. 1795, p. $23.), which he 
again published more at large, with beautiful figures of new 
species, Erlang. 1799, 8vo. In this arrangement, and in his 
enumeration of West Indian Mosses, he evinced that sagacity 
and moderation, which every botanist ought to possess. 
Although he highly valued the discoveries of Hedwig, he by 
no means, however, admitted the whole of the genera, which he 
had separated too artificially, but conjoined, for example, Di- 
cranum and Fissidens, Swartzia and Didymyodon, Tor tula and 
Barbula, Bryum and Webera. But then he also established 
new genera of Mosses : Conostomum (Schrad. neues Journ. 
