Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants
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Type of record: Book
Title: Twenty lessons on British mosses, or, First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants
Other titles: 20 lessons on British mosses; First steps to a knowledge of that beautiful tribe of plants
Classmark: Botany G-52 GAR
Creator(s): Gardiner, William (1809?-1852)
Additional creator(s): Colvill, Mary (Former owner); Mathers, David (1846-1852) (Publisher); Duff, J (Printer); Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans (Publisher)
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Ackermann & co. David Mathers; J. Menzies ; Edmonston and Douglas. F. shaw ; W. Middleton ; J. Chalmers
Publication city: London : Edinburgh : Dundee
Date(s): MDCCCLII [1852]
Language: English
Size and medium: 50 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/797050
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021532081405181
Description
Printer from title page verso: J. Duff, Printer, Dundee.
Illustrated with 25 dried specimens mounted in the text, interleaved with guard tissue. Leeds University Library copy is missing guard tissue.
Price on cover: 3/6.
Lesson I. Introduction -- Lesson II. The structure of mosses -- Lesson III. Andraea rupestris. Rock Andraea -- Lesson IV. Sphagnum squarrosum. Spreading-leaved bog-moss -- Lesson V. Gymnostomum heimii. Long-stalked beardless-moss -- Lesson VI. Splachnum vasculosum. Large-fruited Splachnum -- Lesson VII. Encalypta vulgaris. Common extinguisher-moss -- Lesson VIII. Weissia nigrita. Black-fruited Weissia -- Lesson IX. Grimmia apocarpa. Sessile-fruited Grimmia -- Lesson X. Didymodon capillaceus. Fine-leaved Didymodon -- Lesson XI. Trichostomum lanuginosum. Woolly-fringe moss -- Lesson XII. Fissidens bryoides. Small fern-leaved fork-moss, or Mungo Park's moss -- Lesson XIII. Dicranum scoparium. Broom fork-moss -- Lesson XIV. Tortula subulata. Awl-shaped screw-moss -- Lesson XV. Polytrichum urnigerum. Urn-bearing hair-moss -- Lesson XVI. Orthotrichum affine. Pale straight-leaved bristle-moss -- Lesson XVII. Bryum trichodes. Capillary thread-moss -- Lesson XVIII. Bartramia pomiformis. Common apple-moss -- Lesson XIX. Hypnum rutabulum. Common rough-stalked feather-moss -- [unnumbered lesson] Hypnum ruscifolium. Long-beaked water feather-moss -- Lesson XX. Hypnum crista-castrensis. Ostrich-plume, or prince's feather-moss -- Conclusion -- Tabular view of the genera of British mosses, as arranged in Hooker's British Flora, vol. 2d, part 1st...
Indexed in: Pritzel (2nd ed.)
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Botany G-52 GAR: printed announcement from G & C. Merriam Company, 8 February 1850.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Botany G-52 GAR: publisher's brown/green cloth, gold tooled on front cover, green checked endpapers.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Botany G-52 GAR: acquired in 2025. MS inscription on dedication page: Mary Colvill Oct 19th 1859.
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