78 MOSSES. 



from their reverend gray hairs might be called the 

 j ►atriaxchs of the family. 



. We carried our Screw Mosses, and Grimmias, and 

 Fringe Moss homo, treading softly over the carpet of 

 Feather Moss in the low meadows by the river side, and 

 thinking of the "green pastures and still waters' in 

 which the Lord leads his people. 



" Praised be the mosses soft 

 In the mountain pathways oft, 

 And the thorns that make ns think 

 Of the thornless river's brink, 

 Where the ransomed tread." 



