Excerpt from Handbook of British Hepaticæ: Containing Descriptions and Figures of the Indigenous Species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia, and AnthocerosThe splendid monograph of "British Jungermanniæ" published by Sir W. J. Hooker, in 1816, was the first independent work on the Hepaticæ published in this country, although many species were figured in Smith and Sowerby's English Botany, 1790-1814. After that time no attempt was made at the publication of a separate work until 1865. During the interval the Liverworts were included in general Floras, such as Hookers English Flora, Vol. V., in 1833, but notably in Gray's Arrangement of British Plants in 1821, and in the latter several new genera were proposed, which were wholly ignored down to most recent times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.