Icones muscorum: or, Figures and descriptions of most of those mosses peculiar to North America which have not yet been figured |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acuminata Alabama Amer America anguste annulo Antheridium et paraphysis apice Appalach areolata Areolatio apicialis Areolatio basilaris areolatione Austin basi basilaris et apicialis basin Bolander brevibus brevioribus cæspitantes California calyptra Canada CAPSULA in pedicello Capsula operculata Capsula vacua cellulis ciliis Columbia costa dense dentes ejusdem areolatio elongatis erecta erecto-patentia Exsicc femineæ FLORES dioici FLORES monoici Folia caulina Folia perichætialia Folium caulinum Folium perichætiale folium perigoniale FUNARIA Gemma mascula HYPNUM inferne James lanceolata late leaves Lesqx Lindb margine masc MICROMITRIUM Mitten Mosses Mountains Musc Musci nervo New Jersey New York oblonga Ohio operculo conico Operculum ORTHOTRICHUM ovata pallide Pars caulis Pars peristomii Pars plantæ Pars rami Particula peristomii Pennsylvania Perichætium peristome peristomii dentibus peristomii externi dentibus PLAGIOTHECIUM plantæ masculæ Plantæ naturali magnitudine radiculosus ramis ramosus ramulis RHYNCHOSTEGIUM Sectio transversalis folii sensim sicca species specimens SPHAGNUM sporæ sub ore Sulliv Sullivant superne Synop United States vaginula virides
Popular passages
Page 6 - Mr. Sullivant's portion of it was published in a separate edition in the year 1859. It forms a sumptuous imperial folio, the letter-press having been made up into large pages, and printed on paper which matches the plates, twenty-six in number. One volume of the Pacific Railroad Reports, ie, the fourth, contains a paper by Mr. Sullivant, being his account of the Mosses collected in Whipple's Exploration. It consists of only a dozen pages of letter-press, but is illustrated by ten admirable plates...
Page 8 - University, with a view to their preservation and long-continued usefulness. The remainder of his botanical library, his choice microscopes, and other collections are bequeathed to the State Scientific and Agricultural College, just established at Columbus, and to the Starling Medical College, founded by his uncle, and of which he was himself the Senior Trustee. Mr. Sullivant was chosen into the American Academy in the year 1845.
Page 4 - States under his auspices, after critical determination were divided into fifty sets, each of about three hundred and sixty species or varieties, with printed tickets, title, index, etc., and all, except a few copies for gratuitous distribution, were generously made over, to be sold at less than cost, for his esteemed associate's benefit, and, still more, that of the botanists and institutions who could thus acquire them. The title of this classical work and collection is, "Musci Boreali American!...
Page 4 - Europeed, not only adopted the same plan in his Synopsis of the European Mosses, but also the very figures themselves (a few of which were, however, originally his own), whenever they would serve his purpose, as was the case with most of them. " A separate edition was published of this portion of the Manual under the title of The Musci and Hepaticae of the United States East of the Mississippi River (New York, 1856, imperial octavo), upon thick paper, and with proof impressions directly from the...
Page 3 - These plates were engraved at his own expense, and were generously given to the academy. " When the second edition of Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States was in preparation, Mr.
Page 7 - Having chosen his particular department, he gave himself undeviatingly to its advancement. His works have laid such a broad and complete foundation for the study of bryology in this country, and are of such recognized importance everywhere, that they must always be of classical authority; in fact, they are likely to remain for a long time unrivaled.
Page 8 - Ohianit upon a very rare and interesting, but modest and neat Saxifragaceous plant, which he himself discovered in his native State, on the secluded banks of a tributary of the river which flows by the place where he was born, and where his remains now repose.
Page 2 - Arts, in the year 1842. The observations which he continued to make were communicated to his correspondents and friends, the authors of the Flora of North America, then in progress. As soon as the flowering plants of his district had ceased to afford him novelty, he turned to the Mosses, in which he found abundant scientific occupation, of a kind well suited to his bent for patient and close observation, scrupulous accuracy, and nice discrimination. His first publication in his chosen department,...
Page 2 - This required him to occupy himself with the care of the family property, then mainly in lands, mills, etc., and demanding much and varied attention. He became surveyor and practical engineer, and indeed took an active part in business down to a recent period. Leisure is hardly to be had in a newly settled country, and least of all by those who have possessions. Mr. Sullivant must have reached the age of nearly thirty years, and, having married early...
Page 6 - ... illustrate them have not yet been engraved and given to the scientific world. This has fortunately been done in the case of the South Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore Wilkes. For, although the volume containing the Mosses has not even yet been issued by Government, Mr. Sullivant's portion of it was published in a separate edition, in the year 1859. It forms a sumptuous imperial folio, the letter-press having been made up into large pages, and printed on paper which matches the plates,...