46 THE SEV. MK. HIGGIKS ON THE CITLTIVATIOK OF MOSSES. 



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has been disturbed a good deal, i and ? specimens having been 

 planted together to try if fruit 

 is no appearance of fertility. 

 B. Warneum are not healthy. 

 do well. 



Meesie-s:. 



Marratii 



Mnium 



- r*. 



\ 



Meesia 



puts forth setae of prodigious 



length ; a rather suspicious 

 M. longiseta. 



ifc 



The fruit in its season 



dense 



BAETJBAMiEiE. — Bartromia. All are included except B. rigida. 

 The best and most satisfactory mosses for growing in cultivation. 

 Nothing of the kind can exceed them in beauty of colour, growth, 

 and firuit. Catoscopivm nigritum is gone. 



SPLACHKiiJE. — 8, ampullacevm and S. spTicericum have been only 

 lately received ; but Tetraplodon mnioides, on the bones of a rab- 

 bit, has grown and fruited for two seasons most vigorously. 



FissiDENTE-s: are gems for cultivation. F. adiantoides is a por- 

 tion of a specimen which has been in cultivation for twenty years. 

 Antitrichia curtipendula is not healthy, 



. IS0THECTE-2B. — The Ptevogonia are weatly. The Isothecia 

 flourish. Climaciimt dendroides has been very fine, but now droops. 

 LesJcea sericea and L, polycarpa are very beautiful. L. latehricola 

 and pulvinata are fast diaannpnrin cr. 



Htpne^ 



Hypnum 



They 



account 



The 



itality 



almi 



If 



plant will not throw up fresh shoots from the root, but perishes. 

 In some instances I have therefore cut off and planted in fresh 

 and suitable soil the extremities of the fronds ; and these have 



The experiment is however 



young 



too recent to be considered conclusive. Many of the rare Alp 

 species have been tried, but most of them are in a sickly state. 



seems to thrive, but does not form so hand- 

 icinatum, H. loreum becomes in appearance 



-ff. Grista-Castrensis 

 some a nlant as S. v. 



like -ff, squarrosvm. S. atro-virens 



XQTj beautiful 



Sypna fruit 



►mmonly found fertile ; S. cordifolium is perhaps an 



Omali^ 



trichoma/no ides 



NecTcera crispa is tied 



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