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deformity. The dank stagnant marsh is hidden and 

 overspread with the pale green, roseate, or silvery 

 Sphagni, or Bog-mosses; the underwood assumes a 

 golden hue from the bright piliated caps of the Poly- 

 tricJii ; every fallen trunk is quickly covered with the 

 velvet Hypni ; and wherever trees are burned in the 

 woods, or fires lighted there, the black spots are 

 quickly overgrown with dense masses of the Funaria 

 Jiygrometica. And what roof or old wall is without 

 its colony of green, grey, silvery, or purple-stemmed 

 Mosses ? 



" 'Tis Nature's livery round the globe, 



Where'er her wonders range : 

 The fresh embroidery of her robe, 



Through ev'ry season's change. 

 Through ev'ry clime, on ev'ry shore, 



It clings, or creeps, or twines 

 Where bleak Norwegian winters roar ; 



Where tropic summer shines 

 With it the Squirrel builds its nest ; 



In it the dormouse sleeps ; 

 It warm's e'en Philomela's breast j 



Through it the Lizard creeps." 



In the height of summer, to tread or recline upon 

 the soft velvet Moss within the shady shrubbery, or 

 upon the mountain side, as the sounds of evening 

 rise upon the vales below, while the sun goes down 

 to his mountain-bed in gorgeous splendour, and the 

 scents of a host of odoriferous plants rise upon the 

 gale and soothe the mind to meditative tranquillity, 

 is one of the luxuries which a true lover of nature 

 treasures up in his thoughts to enjoy over again in an 

 afternoon nap at such a time as this. In Lapland 

 eurious portable bedding is made of the Grolden-hair 



