English botanist and bryologist (1799-1871)

Bryologia britannica : containing the mosses of Great Britain and Ireland, systematically arranged and described according to the method of Bruch and Schimper, with illustrative plates: being a new (3d) ed., with many additions and alterations, of the Muscologia britannica of Messrs. Hooker and Taylor / by William Wilson.

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