314 ROMANCE OF LOW LIFE AMONGST PLANTS. 



S U M M A R Y. 



ONE important series of facts are to be gleaned 

 from the foregoing, and these estabHsh that 

 the Cryptogamic plants are numerally important 

 items in the great scheme of nature. True, it may 

 be, that a number of them are so minute as not to 

 be appreciable by the naked eye ; but all of them 

 have a history, a birth, a career, and a death. Let 

 the reader infer what conclusions might be drawn 

 and what lessons derived from such facts. 



From the estimates, we may fairly assume that the 

 following is not an exaggerated total of the number 

 of cryptogams which are already known to inhabit 

 the surface of the globe, and that the total will be 

 considerably increased when the dark corners of the 

 world are more definitely explored. 



Total 72,600 



