Hanging-banks Wood. 



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innumerable, the meadow-saxifrage, the marsh valerian, 

 and the pendulous wood-carex. Mosses and Junger- 

 man'nias are likewise plentiful ; and in very early spring, 

 going into dells full of last year's relics, we may often 

 see, perched on a dead branch, the "Dryads' cup," 

 Pezi'za coccin'ea, that in shape is like the bowl of the 

 acorn, but three or four times larger, and inside of the 



FIG. 20. 



Theca and peristome of Moss 

 (highly magnified.) 



FIG. at. 

 Hyp'num tamarisctnum. 



deepest carmine colour.* One of the Jungermannias is 



* See, for a very pretty and characteristic drawing of this elegant 

 plant, Bolton's " Fungi of Halifax," vol. lii. plate 104, (Chetham 

 Library. ) 



