Excerpt from The Musci and Hepaticæ of the Pyrenees

BE rone entering upon an enumeration of the Musci and Hepa ticae of the Pyrenees, it will be proper to indicate the sources from which it has been derived. I have not been able to find any trustworthy record of mosses gathered in the Pyrenees pre vious to the time of Bride], who in 1803 visited the Pyrenees Orientales and the northern part of Catalonia, where he disco vered his Bartramia stricta, Barbula chloronotos and some others. Of Bridel' s mosses I have seen only a very few, communicated by Professor Arnott from the herbarium of M. Requien. In the 3rd edition of the Flore Francaise (1815) several Pyrenean stations of mosses are recorded, on the authority of decandolle, Ramond, Dufour and Grateloup. The two botanists last-named have since that period continued to pay occasional botanical visits to the Pyrenees, almost up to the present time, and to their liberality I owe specimens of such mosses as they collected. In 1825 the eastern and central Pyrenees were visited by our distinguished countrymen, Messrs. G. Bentham and G. A. Walker Arnott, and the latter gentleman has kindly communicated to me specimens of nearly all his Pyrenean mosses, a few only of which he has noticed in A Tour to the South of France and the Pyrenees, inserted in the Edinburgh New Philosophical J ournal' for April 1826. Still later, from 1828 to 1830, the eastern Pyrenees were at various times partially explored by Dr. C Montague, whose knowledge of general Cryptogamy is unrivalled, and his discoveries, including numerous lichens and not a few mosses, were announced by him self in the Archives de Bota nique, ' tom. I. Under the title of Notice sur les Plantes Cryptogames récemment découvertes en France, 8m. Most of these I have had the opportunity of examining. In 1835, Dr. Grateloup began to publish in the Actes de la Société Linu néenne de Bordeaux, ' tom. Vii., a Cryptogamic Tarbellienne, 104 Mr. R. Spruce on the Musci and qtica of the Pyrenees.

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