" The slightest piece of information which may tend to the advancement of the 

 science [of Botany], we should thankfully receive. However trifling in itself, yet 

 combined with other facts it may become important. Whatever relates to the de- 

 termination of species, even in the lowest and seemingly least important of Nature's 

 works, ought never to be neglected. He who determines with certainty a single 

 species of moss, adds so far to the general stock of human knowledge." — Sir J. E. 

 Smith. 



