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the Florida syrrhopodon, the hair-like bryum, and 

 Crueger's bryum; and on the moist walls of their 

 cave near the entrance, the common tortula and the 

 black-fruited gyroweisia. These were all small and 

 erect like the cord moss. 



They also found larger mosses in similar places 

 that were branched and prostrate, sending up their 

 little stalked fruit-bodies at intervals. Among 

 these were the tomentose hairy-cap, the small- 

 leaved haplocladium, and the glossy isopterygium. 



Hepatics on trees and rocks, like Joor's leptoclea, 

 the small-lobed lejunea, and the spreading frullania, 

 were mistaken by the children for mosses not in 

 fruit; while forms like marchantia and dumortiera, 

 found on wet rocks and mud, were perfect puzzles 

 to them. 



"I think we may as well try the ocean next," re- 

 marked Henrv. "Do vou remember those beauti- 

 ful seaweeds and the sea gardens.^ xA.nd I'll show 

 you a trick I learned at Coney Island from a soldier 

 who had been in the Philippines." 



