Handbook of British Hepatic�: Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia, and Anthoceros (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Cooke, M. C.

9780332921266: Handbook of British Hepatic�: Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia, and Anthoceros (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Handbook of British Hepatic�: Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia, and Anthoceros

It is difficult to estimate the number of known species distributed through the world, since the latest Synopsis is now fifty years Old. In 1847 the total stated by Lindley was seven hundred, but at the present day it cannot be estimated at less than two thousand, and possibly more, of which two hundred have been found in the British Isles. When it is remembered that Dr. Spruce records about five hundred and sixty species for the Amazon and Andes, of which but few are European, it must be conceded that our estimate is the lowest which could be accepted.

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