Handbook of British hepaticæ : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros / by M.C. Cooke.

  • Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt), 1825-1914.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Handbook of British hepaticæ : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros / by M.C. Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    illustrated by wood-cuts. This was little more than an illustrated catalogue, but was the only complete work published down to the present. At that time the announcement was made of the speedy publication of British Hepaticae, with coloured plates, by Dr. Carrington, to be issued in four parts, which were ultimately published, but did not contain more than one-third of the British species known, and the work abruptly closed. Notwithstanding that the group is a small one, with other attractions for students, no manual for their use was to be found in the English language, except the above-named illustrated catalogue of nearly thirty years ago, and I have often been urged to expand that easy guide into a Hand- book, and render it more complete and efficient, but I had always hoped that Dr. Carrington would complete his work, or issue an independent volume which should be complete in itself. These hopes having failed, with the death of my lamented friend, I have, at length, with some reluctance, pre- pared the following pages for the press. I have felt diffidence, since for many yoars another branch of the Crypt.ogamia has absorbed so much of my