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A SECOND edition of Part 2 of the well-known “Monograph of the British Lichens,” published by the British Museum, has just appeared. Part i of the first edition was prepared by Crombie and published in 1894. Part 2, elaborated by Miss A. Lorrain Smith, was published in 1911. Miss Lorrain Smith then proceeded to the difficult but useful task of revising part 1 (1918): she j has now laid lichenologists under a further debt of gratitude by revising and bringing up-to-date her own volume, part 2. She states in an introductory note that there are no fundamental changes in the new edition, though the addition of many species, some rearrangement of genera and species, and other alterations will be noted. Only those who have worked at the small saxicolous lichens can fully appreciate the time, care, and patience which are required in describing and naming this group of organisms. British lichenologists are singularly fortunate in having a flora thoroughly up-to-date, and by an authority such as the author, provided in the excellent series of monographs published by the British Museum.
A Monograph of the British Lichens: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species in the Department of Botany, British Museum.
Annie Lorrain
Smith
Part 2. Second edition revised. By. Pp. ix + 447 + 63 plates. (London: British Museum (Natural History), 1926.) 20s.
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A Monograph of the British Lichens: a Descriptive Catalogue of the Species in the Department of Botany, British Museum . Nature 118, 440 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118440c0
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