Abstract
IT is a pleasure to welcome the little volume on liverworts, to which scale mosses, as well as the more familiar Thallose forms, like Marchantia, belong. Sir Edward Fry has long been known as one who takes a keen interest in mosses, and this new little book on an allied group of plants will appeal to those amateurs who like to know something at first hand of the less easily studied objects of nature. In truth, the liverworts are fascinating plants, for they stand at the parting of the ways where the higher forms branch off from the lower series of primitive groups. They are, however, not easy to study, for they need a keen eye to detect them, and they are, many of them, very difficult to identify.
The Liverworts, British and Foreign.
By the Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, with the assistance of Agnes Fry. Pp. viii+74. (London: Witherby and Co., 1911.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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The Liverworts, British and Foreign . Nature 86, 343 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086343a0
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