Abstract
THIS is a new edition of a work that appeared originally in 1873. There is no other recent handbook of British mosses, so that it has had the field entirely to itself, and has had a large circulation amongst our home collectors. It is a cheap working handbook, something on the scale of Babington's “Manual of the British Flowering Plants and Ferns,” without any figures, but with full diagnostic characters of all the indigenous genera and species. Britain is exceptionally rich in mosses, and in this new edition 129 genera and 576 species are enumerated and described, with a short notice of locality.
A Synopsis of the British Mosses.
By C. P. Hobkirk. Second Edition. 8vo, 240 pages. (London: L. Reeve and Co., 1884.)
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BAKER, J. Our Book Shelf . Nature 30, 582 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030582a0
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